Got to go to the dentist, PC pays for a yearly cleaning so I decided to take advantage of that. There was already another person scheduled, so I went along with another PCV but the doctor that normally comes with you was out for the day, so we had to go it alone.
The dentist knew no English (From what I gathered he got his degree in Russia) and so we were on our own. Now grant it, I've lived here a year so have decent Armenian but I've never really had to learn the vocabulary one would need to go to the dentist. I can remember the word teeth (or the word for tooth, the plural is irregular so I don't know if I'm ever saying the singular or plural). For example, I didn't know the word for, I have a really bad gag reflex, so yeah, you are choking me a lot with your tools. (gag-reflex in Armenian, note to self . . . ). His vocabulary was kept to pretty much "open," "stay like that," and "good." That's about all I needed to know, and we got by fine.
The dentist took breaks in between each patient to have a cigarette, which I thought was a bit amusing. I can now say I have been to a medical clinic (while in Thailand a few years back) and a dentist's office where they no one spoke English. What am I missing to go ahead and make this an awkward foreign medical examination trifecta?
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