Well, we're in Yerevan again for the weekend: I had training events on Thursday night and all day yesterday, but Sam came up to the city yesterday afternoon, and we took today to get some errands done that you just can't accomplish in Sisian. We got ourselves a big bag of broccoli from our favorite fruit khanoot (fruit stand) and Sam bought his guitar! We also trialed a hair dressers so that Sam can look sharp in a month when we go back to the US for a wedding. I think this may be the most relaxed he's looked in months.
It's odd: it feels like we're always coming up to Yerevan for some sort of training event, but apparently we're here far less than other volunteers for whom the travel isn't nearly as arduous. There are also volunteers with much longer/more unpleasant journeys than ours, but some of them still manage to make their way to the capital more frequently than we do. I think a large part of it is that we're a couple, and so staying at site isn't nearly as lonely for us as it is for other volunteers. While it's nice that we're saving a ton of money by not going traveling to Yerevan when there is no training (PC reimburses travel expenses when you're there for training events), it also means we miss out a lot on the group social scene which is too bad, because we really like the other volunteers here. Hopefully, when we find independent housing, we'll be able to invite other volunteers to stay with us and that will help.
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