Bad Taxi
August 21 - Ohh... Today was interesting... I am sick... but traveled to Vanadzor on work with my counterpart. Checked out the Humanitarian Rights Library of Armenia. Had a good meeting with the director of this NGO about helping them work out a fund raiser to finish their Human Rights school. It is beautiful in Vanadzor! And they have a movie theater and a swimming pool set up for lap swimming. That place is a different world from my home. Took a marshutni with three Polish backpackers from my town who are traveling around Armenia. I really want to go mountain climbing soon. These mountains are very nice and I'm sure the views from atop are wonderful. But somehow we missed our last marshutni from Vanadzor and my young counterpart worked out a taxi ride for us back home.
I am not going to elaborate too much on the taxi ride back because that was hands-down the worst car ride I have ever been on - normally I can stomach the transportation around here, not to mention I prefer a marshutni to the taxi any day, it's much cheaper - and from now on, even though my CP is Armenian, I'd prefer to work out any future taxi rides we have myself (such as NOT telling the driver how fast we have to be somewhere). Then he was going to drop us off the side of the highway so we'd have to walk a mile to our next bus stop but I refused to get out of the taxi because it was raining, and we were paying lots of cash that we shouldn't have had to pay for the ride in the first place, so after saying "CHE!!" a few times he dropped us off at the bus stop.
Then I went straight to Arevik's birthday - Alita's 25 year old daughter, and my friend. She lives in the center of town with her husband, three month old boy, and three year old boy. That was really fun! I got a video of the insane candles they put on their birthday cakes. They also had a huge confetti tube, and that got crazy. It was quite a party.
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