Mispronounciation
Trip Start
Jan 15, 2005
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Trip End
Apr 27, 2006
I am scared to death to say the word for garlic in Armenian!! Why? Because I always mispronounce it and unfortunately, when it is mispronounced I end up saying the word f*ck!! Of course, this makes my host mother laugh!! The other fun thing to say today is that I found a place that serves cold coffee!! With ice cubes!! My long search for cold coffee on a regular basis is over. Wow! It only took 4 months to find coffee beans in Uzbekistan and they were 4 hours away. And then the stovetop double expresso thing was 12 hours away from my site. Now I have everything I want! So, strange. I am in a strange mood right now. I heard that a friend of mines husband passed away a couple of months ago but I didn't hear about it until this week. Wow. And then I finally read a travel log of another Uzbek volunteer. He had helped my friends in Navoii get a marshutka to Tashkent and then a few weeks later had actually been evacuated from the country. Rather humbling news. On a happier note, I am going to Yerevan tomorrow and then over to my new site to meet my new host family. I am hoping to go dancing. There are quite a few people who also want to go dancing. Take care everyone!! Laura
