sriracha

hello again. i feel like i ought to update a bit. the last night in our last hostel we had a great time (again, you can see pictures on haiks blog: www.haikavanian.com/42days). we met some cool people and chatted for along time. then we headed out at midnight to the park down the street. we were staying ina residential area so it was nice and quiet. the park took us up a hill. from the top we could see out and all the buildings and lights and everything looked so beautiful. even though light pollution i found the big dipper. we stayed up there in a while - the park itself was pitch dark. we headed back a couple hours later - hoping to not step on any snails. there were many around but we could not even see where we were stepping. it was a great night all in all. we took lots of funny pictures and got some contact information so we can share pictures and chat again sometime. the guy we hung out with had just gotten out of four years in the airforce and the girl was russian but lived in albuquerque since she was nine.

yesterday we arrived at our new hostel in a more central location. the guy who owns the place is an old persian man who is very kind and caring. the funny thing is that the cleaning lady is armenian and haik has befriended her. she told us to let her know if we needed towels (suppose to charge 3 euros to use em). we asked for towels today and got em and it was wonderful. for those of you who dont know, our towels we bring are microfiber and superthin. they dry fast and take up no room in our bags but are not too great to use everyday. it was wonderful to use a real towel. it reminded me of prison (not that i would know, hah.). but just getting these towels for free when we should have to pay and the lady sneaking them to us, haha. we just wandered a lot yesterday toward nothing in particular. actually we went to the contemporary culture museum. whats funny is we didnt even end up going in the museum, just up to the video archive and watching some little films and we actually went back today (its free). today we also stumbled upon a graphic design show thing which was good to see and i know haik enjoyed.

i ate cereal this morning with warm milk. yuck. its great how much they recycle here. just next to me (im in the kitchen) is a can for "tetrapak and cans," a can for "paper," and can for "organic," and then a trash can. you can always find ones for plastic and such on the streets too. man, i need to write down these little cultural differences throughout the day. they always cross my mind and i think they would be interesting to share but i always forget. ...because people all have dogs and no rule about picking up the poo i almost step in poo daily. i feel like at home people usually bring the little baggie when they go out. who knows.

pistons 2 - boston 2
go pistons! :-)