homemade mullberry vodka --> good!

Quick review of today.

I had to meet up with Armine before going to work to get a present for one of the newish co-worker. We had no idea what to buy, so decided to get some things that 99% of girls will be happy to get - that is skin care, mask, hand-cream, etc. Of course I was late. We arranged to meet at 11... But i was talking to Michael and he was explaining how to get electricity from a potato and how to make a spud gun. How could I have missed such a lecture?! I suggested him releasing a book "zzvanq useful applied science". Anyway. At 10.55 I was having the morning coffee. At 11.15 I was at the destination (practically impossible thing :D). We got everything and were to move to work. We almost reached the opera station. Suddenly a guy stopped us and asked if we spoke english. He went into ecstatic raptures about the fact that we did.

guy: oh, how very great! can you please tell me where i can change my money?

Irene: as you could have guessed at an exchange point :D You can find it at Abovian street. And of course you don't know where it is, right?

guy: uhh no.. how can i get there?

Irene: everything's clear with you. *in armenian* Armine? should we walk him there?

Armine: yeah :D well we'll arrive a bit late at work but it's ok.

Irene: OKay. We'll get you there. Come with us.

guy: oh thank you very much! And excuse me that I caused so much inconvenience. You changed your path because of me. I just couldn't find anyone who'd speak english. A friend of mine speaks turkish but he couldn't come with me.

Irene: oh, yes of course! turkish would be of great help *giggles*

guy: *seriously* unfortunately I don't speak turkish.

Irene: lucky you! people will not throw stones on you or beat you :D I'm kidding. But if seriously nobody here speaks turkish so don't worry. I suppose it's your first visit?

guy: yeah! i like it very much! Yerevan is a lot like big European cities. I've been to Germany and Italy and I must say I'm quite impressed!

*time to cross the street*

Irene: hm. have you already had any experience of crossing the street here?

guy: no.. why? is it smth special?

Irene: mhm... don't do it when you are alone and avoid doing it in general. It's *very* special.

guy: what is it :D?

Irene: when necessary you must run like hell.. *crossing the street* stop!.. come!.. wait!.. careful! run!!.. relax :)

guy: lol that was fun :D oh btw, what's your name?

Irene: Irene, Armine

guy: Niman (or Iman or maybe Ivan? no idea really)

Irene: you must be from Iran.

guy: i am :D have you been there?

Irene: no never ever.

guy: how old are you girls?

Irene: 20.

guy: both?

Irene: we were born on the same day of the same month of the same year.

guy: ! but you are not alike at all! you are not sisters, are you?

Irene: no we are not :D

guy: is the exchange close to here?

Irene: we are almost at the place.. well to me it is so. To others usually it means they have to walk *a lot* before they get to the place :D

guy: lol mm maybe you'd like to have a drink?

Irene, Armine: no thank you

Irene: well of course you can have a drink, we don't mind, but of course without us :D

guy: what do you do? do you study?

Irene: we do.. at different places. oh btw, Armine studies tourism and wants to be a guide, so Armine you can get some experience right away :D

Armine: well I take guide courses now at the national art gallery. And if I do well at exams I'll be allowed to work as a tour guide for a month!

Irene: i think you can be a guide starting from today :D

guy: lol oh it's very nice of you to guide me to the exchange. Are we at least close?

Irene: here you go *shows with the hand at a store*. Go inside and turn to the left. Have a nice day. Bye-bye

guy: oh but I owe you a lot! ..

Irene: you owe us absolutely nothing. Have fun in Armenia. Bye-bye.

we turn to go. Then decide to take the other way and suddenly see the guy walking out of the store and wandering around

Irene: jeeze he will get lost among 3 pine trees! Hey! go *into* the store! OK. *just* follow us! there you see? it's written "exchange"

guy: oh thank you! oh i just.. thank you! i thought it was..

Irene: bye-bye!

we left laughing and got to the work.

After work and a dinner I decided to organize a bath for my parrot in the bathroom. But when I brought him in and he understood what I was to do, he flew away, hit himself against the wall and fell into the bucket with... a chloride solution. Luckily for the dumb bird he stayed on the surface by flapping his wings and I easily found him by the sound and rescued when he was about to drawn. But I didn't know what was in the bucket. Then I felt the strong smell and it kind of struck me that it wasn't just water in the bucket. So I put him under the cold streaming water. Now he's not on talking conditions, sits on his perch and stares at me in an angry way. The good thing is that he kept silence for a long time and let my ears relax, and that his eyes weren't affected by the solution. Good bath..