April has been an interesting month for me. Work has been going well, but a lot of this month has been spent waiting for money for projects to begin. Funding for my big grant was put through at the end of last week, but we will not receive the money until next Friday. Which is […]
First of all, happy Easter! And a happy Mother’s Day to all those in Armenia! 🙂 A lot has been happening since I last wrote. The first is my participation is Koghb Art School’s Armenian Poetry Day. As the name suggests, they hosted several famous Armenian poets to come and share their work, read poems […]
While there are a lot of wonderful inter-cultural exchange experiences and wacky encounters with host-country nationals I could tell about, today I wanted to share something a little more fun. Part of my lessons at the Koghb Art School included a lesson on PhotoShop and other fun computer drawing software. I have to say I’m quite happy that […]
In one of my larger failures of Peace Corps’ “Goal 3” – I’ve been really bad about teaching everyone back home about Armenia lately. Our Internet is very wishy-washy, but now that the good weather and a few trips to the top of mountain (more on that later), things are getting back on track. But […]