PDM training ended on Sunday. Because I have a committee meeting here in Yerevan tomorrow (Thursday) morning, I decided to just stay in the city this week. I could have gone back to site with Sam on Sunday, but it would have meant a 5 hour taxi ride back, followed by no work on Monday (I don't teach any classes on Mondays) and 1.5 hours of work on Tuesday (I only have two 45 minute lessons on Tuesday with my counterpart), then a 5 hour marshutney ride on Wednesday to be back here in Yerevan on Thursday morning. Much easier to just stay here- more productive too: this way, instead of travel and interruptions, I can continue to work on the ideas that my counterparts and I started to develop during PDM training.
Now, unfortunately, I can't afford to eat out at restaurants in Yerevan every night for a full week. So instead I've been going to the market to buy food that I can cook in the Envoy's kitchen. This means I've been eating pasta and broccoli with lemon juice cooked in actual olive oil all week- it's been amazing. I've missed broccoli so so SO much- for some reason, it's completely unavailable outside of Yerevan.
I was going to the market to stock up on broccoli again today (I'm here until Friday, and I can't get enough broccoli. It's the new love of my life) and I saw something that I've never seen in Armenia before: Yellow Tomatoes.
I didn't buy them (red tomatoes are available in Sisian, and I'm completely hung up on broccoli right now- besides, it's winter: none of the tomatoes are very good this time of year), but I was really surprised to see them there.
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