Pas ou peu de photos, vous les retrouverez dans la catégorie qui va bien.

Ne me méprenez pas, j’ai globalement ADORE mes 18 mois passés dans le Caucase, c’est juste que le français moyen aime bien râler

Mars 2006 : Hello World
Avril 2006 : Le pourquoi du comment 1
Mai 2006 : Le pourquoi du comment 2
Juin 2006, je ne voulais plus repartir

Août 2006, de retour de Suisse, j’étais motivé comme jamais.

Octobre 2006, premiers doutes, grosse décision.

Janvier 2007, vacances à paris, retour difficile et triste nouvelle

Février 2007, pas grand chose à dire

Mars 2007, A nous de vous faire préférer le train

Avril 2007 : Interrogations
Mai 2007 : Tbilissi

Juin 2007 : Decision to take
Juillet 2007 : L’Iran
Aout 2007 : Retour en France
Musique : Bambir, pères et fils

Unusual destination for a taxi driver

The Nubarashen “landfill”, the dump site of Yerevan, is a huge smoking pile of burning waste. Dioxin and other polluting substances pollute the air of the capital, with associated risk for the population’s health.

Her impressions are on her blog here.
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Smoking Ararat

I was planning my departure, training the armenian guy that was hired to replace me. Starting to think about a new job. And look for it. Everything was going well.

Until l got a phone call from my successor last week. Very bad news.The guy wanted to be “wiser-than-the-old-monkey“, to get rid of the army he had to serve by starting a PhD. No Way.
“I’m leaving in two days“, he said to me. Army got him.Bad news for me. I’ve been so stupid to bet on a single horse, especially knowing that he would had troubles with Armenian Army.

So I need to find another successor, train him and leave the country. In 1 week? no way. I’m staying a bit longer in order to put everything in order (again). End of july. Then probably Iran for 2 weeks.

Without any logical transition, let me introduce you a kind of local Elvis. from Gyumri.

Les Convoyeurs Attendent, de Benoît Mariage
Version française uniquement

Un de mes 10 films préférés, toute catégorie confondue.
Venez nombreux

Sinon, je sais que j’écris peu, mais je me suis lancé dans un nouveau projet de blog photo, vous en sauvrez plus dans quelques jours (semaines?)

Free Entrance, At Espaces Center, Nalbandyan 29, Yerevan. See you there

Bowling for Columbine, from Michael Moore

Une de mes élèves, à l’instant.

It’s like the first day I was using automatic washing machines.

She’s discovering Word after having been using soviets typing machines for ages

We are starting to play movies, twice a month, inEspaces centre , 29 Nalbandyan street, in Erevan, just in front of KGB entrance (they are nice, don’t worry :).

Every first and last saturday from a month, at 17.00. Entrance is free, for everyone.. For those interestedd, there should be a discussion after the movie. (We tried to choose interesting and original movies as much as possible).

See you here so

Here is the program (changes may happen) :

Le Pari, from Didier Bourdon et Bernard Campan
French only
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Bowling For Columbine, from Michael Moore
English with russian subtitles
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The carriers are waiting, from Benoît Mariage
French only
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Carnets de voyage, from Walter Salles.
Spanish with russian subtitles
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Darwin’s Nightmare, from Hubert Sauper
English version with french subtitles
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Luna Papa, from Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov
Russian version

My contract with KASA is going on. I’m training MSF Belgium staff, the NGO is closing down in Armenia.
Excel, PHP/MySQL, Word, some designing tools. Nothing really exciting indeed, but at least I will be busy until the end of june. Then I”ll be free to leave KASA. Mon contrat avec KASA suit son cours, je forme le personnel de Médecins Sans Frontières Belgique, qui plie bagage en Arménie. Excel, PHP/MySql, Word, quelques softs de design, rien de bien excitant en soi, mais de quoi m’occuper jusqu’à la fin du mois de juin.

And it’s ideal, because all my development projects have been stopped. So I have the only choice to focus on trainings.

Nothing really special to write down.

And I’m watching at the same time Michael Scofield’s adventures (1st season in just one week), I’m a bit busy these days.

4 monthes before leaving KASA, it’s time for me to change my ideas and create new projects. In fact, this armenian adventure, which was humanly speaking totally outsanding (I met really extraodrinary people here) never revealed the initial potential. Mainly because of a project which was bad designed and without any defined goals. And this is particulerly demotivating.

I would at least learn the importance and impact of the human management in such projects.

I met a french businessman last week, and it made me think a bit more on what I want to do later. And I haven’t made my mind yet. Armenia made my Punkitude quotient increased a bit these last monthes

Speaking about the blog, I’m typing down some articles, a bit long. I should be finishing them by the end of the week.
And Follow the way entered Wikipedia, huge thanks to Angryroot, english blogger from armenian diaspora.This is flattering my ego

The light at this end of winter is so beautiful. The sun is back and I’m shooting some new pictures.

I just opened a flickr account in order to publish pictures I havene’t posted on my blog yet. Here they are.

I am looking for someone with professional experience who can give design tools training (Corel draw, Photoshop, maybe Pagemaker or Indesign) for a trainee for 2 monthes, 3 hours a week (after 6PM mainly) .
It will be individual courses, and to define more precisely the content with the trainee.

If you know someone interested, just send him my contacts, and ask to get back to me asap for more details.