I don't know when but a days gonna come . . . when I start posting again! And I guess that day is today.

I haven't posted in a while.

Kinda fell off the wagon. Isn't that used for AA? If alcoholism means 'not posting' and posting consistently means 'recovered alcoholic.'

Have I lost you already?

Okay so I've been in Armenia for over a year now! My family visited last month, it was great, we got to meet my first host family who we had a giant dinner with (called a khorovats which is the Armenian word for barbecue), see some old churches and monasteries, and I got to relax and be a tourist (mainly at the pool in our hotel. It was great, but the trip was just too short.

The other night I was signed into Steam, a software distribution platform I've used since I moved to Armenia. Another friend of mine was on I saw, and I just got the idea to try to play a game online. I was pretty sure it wouldn't work, but I figured I'd give it a try. We loaded up a mutual multi-player game we both owned and, what do you know, it works!

So I get to play an online game and talk to an old friend who is on the other side of the world, while I'm in Armenia. Oh and I didn't have water that night. That's Armenia in a nutshell. Contradictions.

The summer has come and gone here, school starts up in a little over a week. This summer I was able to teach the new English volunteers, which was a great experience and one that helped me gain more appreciation for just what the staff goes through every Spring preparing for the training of new volunteers. It's a lot of work, and very little will go according to your original plan/intentions.

Lastly, this summer has been beautiful. This spring was horrible with its two months straight of rain, but once that was over everything was soooo green! Like Ireland green. of course by July, and now, it's all brown, because it hasn't rained much since then, but for that month of June, there were wild flowers, and the greenest rolling hills and mountains.