quickie

so last weekend we went to lake sevan. the place we stayed was ridiculously nice. two stories, 4 bedrooms, a piano. the works. we all drank way too much vodka, and since this is a pg rated blog, ill leave it at that. suffice it to say it was a fun night. the next day, we went swimming in sevan. of course it was raining, but that didn't stop us. in fact, it was quite fun.
sunday was one of the highlights of the trip. went to mrshakad (sp? as always) village in the armarvir region with der sarkis from san francisco. one, the hospitality was awseome and its great to see people that are excited to go to church because they never get the chance (as opposed to usual sunday routine). secondly, i brought the chalice around, which is the one thing during the liturgy that a deacon can do that a sub-deacon can't. its cool to think that my first time doing this was in armenia at a village. i was a little freaked out, but it went fine- and i was purty excited about it.
this week, ive just been working (although im going in super late today, and tomorrow is a national holiday- we'll see about going in). update on my mood, after all the repat stuff, i feel quite hypocritical. im tired of western-priced restaurants and my super nice apartment. basically, im toying with doing a home-stay for at least a couple weeks. we'll see what happens. its possible that lusine and i are going back to karabagh this weekend with birthright where we will stay with some families, so maybe that will make me feel a little better.
overall, things are super-fab-fine, although its been raining for two days now, and i actually don't know how im going to leave this internet place to go to work without being drenched... well... hopefully i dont melt.