I apologize in Advance for the title: Snow Way!

And still, I feel the need to apologize.  I'm sorry.  Awful title, I know.

At work today I was speaking about the weather with my co-worker.  I jokingly addressed the snow and told it to stop.  Then my co-worker said, the snow can come.  I had to ask her again if that is what she met, and she said, "Let it come.  It is good for the villages.  Heavy snow means the fruit next year will be good."

Interesting.  I could probably google this, and I'd find out that it is false, or that perhaps there is some truth behind it after all, more snow means more ground water, which means blah blah blah whatever.  Maybe there is a scientific finding that goes along with this saying or maybe it's just an Armenian saying, but either way, I like not knowing.

The snow out my window

It's been snowing all week.  Guess I should have mentioned that earlier.  Revise?  Nope.  It doesn't seem like it has snowed this much, but it's been going on and off (and mostly on) since for 4 days.  I'm not sure if it's just only really snowing intermittently, or just not snowing a whole lot at once, or because they don't plow all the snow isn't piled on the sides of the roads that make snow in my hometown look like so much more after 3 or 4 days.  

That's another thing, no snows, no plows.  Some people do own snow shovels, a rather recent development, so I have a few stores outside my building that periodically clear away the snow.  Otherwise everything just gets packed down on the sidewalks.

As an addendum to my "I live in a city" post, I did in fact have someone come to my door today and tell me that I had a package.  Well he just told me that I needed to go to the post office, and I just assumed I had a package coming.  I got one today from the wonderful MIIS PC club!  Now if that is a meaningless acronym, let me elaborate.  The Monterey Institute of International Studies Peace Corps club sent me a package, with a bunch of tea, spices, and snacks I can't get in the US!  Thanks guys, I really appreciate it!

I found myself counting in Armenian today.  I was getting some teaching materials laminated (That's how we roll in the big city of Vanadzor, we're pretty posh like that) and I was counting the items and I started counting to about 4 until I realized I was using Armenian in my head.  Then I decided to continue on, and it really wasn't that hard.  I had heard an Armenian start speaking to the clerk and I had spoken a fair amount of Armenian while running some errands just before, so my brain was still firmly in the Armenian language mindset.

Te lav.