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	<title>f o l l o w t h e w a y &#187; Armenia</title>
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		<title>Arménie : le best of</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Un billet best of, avec des liens vers les meilleurs moments de ce blog depuis mars 2006 :)</p>
<p>Pas ou peu de photos, vous les retrouverez dans <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/category/photos">la catégorie qui va bien.</a></p>
<p>Ne me méprenez pas, j&#8217;ai globalement ADORE&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Un billet best of, avec des liens vers les meilleurs moments de ce blog depuis mars 2006 :)</p>
<p>Pas ou peu de photos, vous les retrouverez dans <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/category/photos">la catégorie qui va bien.</a></p>
<p>Ne me méprenez pas, j&#8217;ai globalement ADORE mes 18 mois passés dans le Caucase, c&#8217;est juste que le français moyen aime bien râler :)</p>
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<p>Mars 2006 : <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/03/23/yerevan-is-ok-yo-les-1eres-nouvelles-caucasiennes-sont-la/">Hello World</a><br />
Avril 2006 : <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/04/22/le-pourquoi-du-comment-part-1-professionnellement-parlant/">Le pourquoi du comment 1</a><br />
Mai 2006 : <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/05/12/le-pourquoi-du-comment-part-2-et-moi-dans-tout-ca/lang-pref/fr/">Le pourquoi du comment 2</a><br />
Juin 2006, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/05/31/money-time/">je ne voulais plus repartir :)</a></p>
<p>Août 2006, de retour de Suisse, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/07/26/de-retour/">j&#8217;étais motivé comme jamais.<br />
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<p>Octobre 2006, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/10/23/silence-radioany-news/lang/fr/">premiers doutes, grosse décision</a>.</p>
<p>Janvier 2007, vacances à paris, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/01/23/homesick/">retour difficile</a> et <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/01/28/urban-guerilla/">triste nouvelle</a></p>
<p>Février 2007, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/02/22/2-semaines-off2-weeks-off/">pas grand chose à dire</a></p>
<p>Mars 2007, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/03/07/a-nous-de-vous-faire-preferer-le-trainvanadzor-by-train/">A nous de vous faire préférer le train</a></p>
<p>Avril 2007 : <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/04/18/le-fil-du-rasoirthe-razors-edge/">Interrogations</a><br />
Mai 2007 : <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/05/12/discovering-tbilisi/">Tbilissi</a></p>
<p>Juin 2007 : <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/06/13/le-fil-du-rasoir-suite/">Decision to take</a><br />
Juillet 2007 : <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/09/14/iran-2-weeks-in-another-world/">L&#8217;Iran</a><br />
Aout 2007 : <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/08/07/bye-bye-armenia/">Retour en France</a><br />
Musique : Bambir, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/11/08/bambir-live-at-the-club-yerevanbambir-en-concert-au-club-erevan/">pères</a> et <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/01/30/apres-les-papas-les-fistonsafter-daddies-kiddies/">fils</a></p>
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		<title>Nubarashen : the kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cooperation.net/kasa">KASA</a> is involved in Nubarashen orphanage #11 since 10 years. Yes, this orphanage dedicated to mentally decifient kids is very close to <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/08/12/nubarashen-smoking-garbage/">the dump site</a>.<br />
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At first the NGO brought material&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.cooperation.net/kasa">KASA</a> is involved in Nubarashen orphanage #11 since 10 years. Yes, this orphanage dedicated to mentally decifient kids is very close to <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/08/12/nubarashen-smoking-garbage/">the dump site</a>.<br />
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At first the NGO brought material helps such as clothes, then started psychological projects in order to help the children, then worked with the orphanage&#8217;s staff in order to bring them proper training and framework.<br />
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A therapy-by-game project took place in 2007, with the renovation of one of the room, and some workshops twice a week, with mental health specialists and volunteers.<br />
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I&#8217;m just typing this message on my personal behalf. I wanted to share with you some pictures from the last workshop session by Lilith Abrahamyan, psychatrist, one of this project supervisor, with these mentally ill but happy kids. I thought that they desserved a bit more than just being part of an internal evaluation report.<br />
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If you want more information about the project, and take part to psychological actions and trainings in Yerevan, contact <a href="mailto:espaces@cooperation.net">espaces@cooperation.net</a>, and if you feel like supporting KASA psychological projects by donating, contact <a href="mailto:kasa@cooperation.net">kasa@cooperation.net</a><br />
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		<title>Nubarashen : Smoking garbage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Just before going to Iran (the pictures are coming, I swear it :)), We went with Anahide to Nubarashen dump site, in the framework of <a href="http://anahide.wordpress.com/environment/general-environmental-issues-in-armenia/">her ecological researches </a> for <a href="http://www.cooperation.net/kasa">KASA NGO</a>.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just before going to Iran (the pictures are coming, I swear it :)), We went with Anahide to Nubarashen dump site, in the framework of <a href="http://anahide.wordpress.com/environment/general-environmental-issues-in-armenia/">her ecological researches </a> for <a href="http://www.cooperation.net/kasa">KASA NGO</a>.<br />
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<blockquote><p>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.</p></blockquote>
<p>Her impressions <a href="http://anahide.wordpress.com/environment/armenia-the-smoking-waste/">are on her blog here.</a><br />
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Here are some pictures I shot. Very interesting visit, as landfills are somewhere I&#8217;m not used to go (who is?). Didn&#8217;t expect something so wide and smoking. Really. Maybe we should visit landfills at least once during our lifetime. And if you&#8217;re interest to come and take part to activities about ecological issues in Yereva, the Eco Club is opening in september. check www.espaces.am for news <center><br />
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<em>Smoking Ararat</em><br />
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		<title>Bye Bye Armenia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here am I, back in Paris.<br />
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<small>View from my parents&#8217; appartment</small></p>
<p><span id="more-142"></span>Just came back 1 day ago in Paris.<br />
I am getting sick (more than 10°C from Yerevan), still a bit jetlagged, but happy.<br&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here am I, back in Paris.<br />
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<small>View from my parents&#8217; appartment</small></p>
<p><span id="more-142"></span>Just came back 1 day ago in Paris.<br />
I am getting sick (more than 10°C from Yerevan), still a bit jetlagged, but happy.<br />
Tons of things to check and <a href="http://www.labellevilloise.com/programmation.htm">see</a>, people to meet and drink with, <a href="http://www.onedayinyourlife.org">projects to work on</a>. Paris didn&#8217;t changed, really.<br />
I&#8217;ll also need to find as soon as possible a job and an appartment.<br />
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<p>And I really didn&#8217;t expect so much people for my farewell party @ Shamrock then Caruzo. It was soooo nice to spend my last hours in the country with you. The french connection I&#8217;ll of course meet again here in Paris, and the &#8220;so called&#8221; locals, I&#8217;ll miss all of you for sure.Thanks for everything for these 17 incredible monthes, really. It was a vital load of fresh air, really.</p>
<p>Coming soon on this blog : pictures from Iran, Nubarashen dump site and orphanage.</p>
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		<title>Break in the Rush #2</title>
		<link>http://www.followtheway.info/armenia/break-in-the-rush-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for the lack of posts these days.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for the lack of posts these days.<br />
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Bye bye Armenia<br />
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I came back safely from Iran. Tons of photos and thoughts to blog about it. Please be patient :)<br />
You&#8217;ll find a report from my swiss friend who traveled with me <a href="http://anahide.wordpress.com/trips/iran">here</a> with some of my pictures.<br />
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I&#8217;m leaving Armenia on sunday night, so see you all in Yerevan one last time sunday evening at Shamrock Irish pub, Saryan street.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all for the moment</p>
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		<title>D-28</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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<p>So here am I.<br />I booked my flight ticket back to France (for good) on <em><strong>august 6th, 5h30</strong></em>. Nothing more to add for the moment, I&#8217;ll blog about my impressions about my last month in Caucasus in general&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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<p>So here am I.<br />I booked my flight ticket back to France (for good) on <em><strong>august 6th, 5h30</strong></em>. Nothing more to add for the moment, I&#8217;ll blog about my impressions about my last month in Caucasus in general later on july.</p>
<p>Briefly, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m happy to leave Armenia (there are people here I really love) but I&#8217;m conviced the main thing I need for now is change. <br />So here am I.</p>
<p>People in Yerevan, get ready for a huge farewell party beginning of august :)</p>
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		<title>On the road again :-)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p align="center"><img style="margin: 5px" src="http://www.followtheway.info/wp-content/images/OTR_200.jpg" /><br />
<small><strong><em>Cruising under Caucasian skies</em></strong><br />
<em>Tumanyan street/Yerevan/June 07/www.followtheway.info</em></small></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be pretty much on the road the next few days/weeks.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/05/12/discovering-tbilisi/">Tbilisi/Georgia</a> from tomorrow until sunday evening (<a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/03/07/a-nous-de-vous-faire-preferer-le-trainvanadzor-by-train">by train</a>). I&#8217;ll try to get out of the city :)</li>
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<small><strong><em>Cruising under Caucasian skies</em></strong><br />
<em>Tumanyan street/Yerevan/June 07/www.followtheway.info</em></small></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be pretty much on the road the next few days/weeks.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/05/12/discovering-tbilisi/">Tbilisi/Georgia</a> from tomorrow until sunday evening (<a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/03/07/a-nous-de-vous-faire-preferer-le-trainvanadzor-by-train">by train</a>). I&#8217;ll try to get out of the city :)</li>
<li>A whole tour in Iran from july 15th to july 30th. Let&#8217;s hope everything will remain calm until then.</li>
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<p>Don&#8217;t expect too much blogging in the upcoming days, but lots of pictures later on :)</p>
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		<title>Now playing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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<p align="left">Just bought 1 week ago, the new Bambir (<a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/02/09/unplugged-bambir/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/01/30/apres-les-papas-les-fistonsafter-daddies-kiddies/">there</a>) demo. 12 tracks of burning 70s rock n roll. A bit rough mixed (it is a demo, keep it in mind). Brilliant songs.&#8230;</p>
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<p align="left">Just bought 1 week ago, the new Bambir (<a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/02/09/unplugged-bambir/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/01/30/apres-les-papas-les-fistonsafter-daddies-kiddies/">there</a>) demo. 12 tracks of burning 70s rock n roll. A bit rough mixed (it is a demo, keep it in mind). Brilliant songs.</p>
<p align="left">From &#8220;<em>The Wild</em>&#8220;, as a raging overture, to the chilling &#8220;<em>Lullaby for Pauper</em>&#8220;, not a single second to waste. And certainly not &#8220;Painted Minds&#8221;&#8216; furious finish, revisiting Aram Khatchaturyan&#8217;s classic under the heavy influence of extravaganza youth.</p>
<p align="left">The problem is, for addicts like me, that something is missing. Something sweating and noisy. And, &#8220;<em>The New Generation</em>&#8221; which is scary on stage just sound too much clean on CD.</p>
<p align="left">But anyway. A great moment. For less thah 5 euros. I&#8217;m taking orders for the french/european people interested :)</p>
<p align="left">And what could be better than (yet) another concert to celebrate the demo release? Live from Down Yerevan, for the 1st armenian edition of the french event &#8220;<a href="http://oneworld.blogsome.com/2007/06/23/fete-de-la-musique/" target="_blank">La fête de la musique</a>&#8220;. <a href="http://www.moscow.am" target="_blank">The Moscow cinema square</a> was packed. Onnik blogged <a href="http://oneworld.blogsome.com/2007/06/23/fete-de-la-musique/" target="_blank">some other pictures</a>.</p>
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<small><em><strong>Keep on rockin in a free world</strong><br />
Bambir / Fête de la musique / Yerevan / June 07 / www.followtheway.info</em></small></p>
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		<title>Le fil du rasoir, suite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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<p>Le fil (du rasoir) s&#8217;est coupé.<br />
Et j&#8217;ai enfin tranché.</p>
<p>Je reviendrai (sait on jamais ;)) en France aux alentours de la fin juillet&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[Sorry for english speaking readers, I'll translate this pretty long post later on this week.]</p>
<p>Le fil (du rasoir) s&#8217;est coupé.<br />
Et j&#8217;ai enfin tranché.</p>
<p>Je reviendrai (sait on jamais ;)) en France aux alentours de la fin juillet (j&#8217;ai un billet ouvert, donc la date exacte dépendra des offres de job que je trouverai d&#8217;ici là). Mais dans tous les cas, début août, pour sûr je serai de retour à Paris.</p>
<p>C&#8217;est objectivement la meilleure décision pour moi, même si elle n&#8217;a pas été évidente à prendre.<br />
<img src="http://www.followtheway.info/wp-content/images/OTR_097.jpg" alt="on the road again?" /><br />
Eté 2007, On the road again, destination unknown (Mastara, Arménie)Qu&#8217;est ce qui s&#8217;est passé, me demanderez vous?, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/04/18/le-fil-du-rasoirthe-razors-edge/">qu&#8217;est ce qui t&#8217;as poussé à changer d&#8217;avis?</a><br />
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<li><strong><em>Le premier élément est purement matériel.</em></strong></li>
<p>Après 15 mois à des conditions locales, j&#8217;avoue avoir du mal à boucler les 2 bouts.<br />
Alors bien sûr je ne me plains pas, et j&#8217;estime avoir eu des conditions de vie plus que correctes par rapport au locaux (avec un salaire de 300 euros), mais sans filet de sécurité, ni assurance maladie ni aucun autre avantage social, le retour en France ne sera pas évident</p>
<p>Une situation durable dans un tel contexte (expatriation dans un pays émergeant) sur du long terme demande donc un certain revenu, que je n&#8217;ai pas réussi à me garantir. Notamment parce que je cherche du travail depuis l&#8217;intérieur du pays, et que c&#8217;est tout de suite plus compliqué de demander des conditions de vie d&#8217;expatrié quand on est considéré comme un local puisque déjà sur place.</p>
<p>Et puis je n&#8217;ai pas envie de rester ici dans des conditions précaires. <a href="http://">L&#8217;hiver n&#8217;est pas des plus drôle</a>. <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/01/28/urban-guerilla/#comment-2410">Le système médical non plus</a>.</p>
<p>http://www.followtheway.info/2007/06/04/aragats/</p>
<p>Bien sûr je vais regretter mon train de vie pépère ici, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/12/15/lhiver-est-lawinter-is-here-2/">l&#8217;hiver extrême</a> et <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2006/09/01/hakhavan-hot-springs/">l&#8217;été coulant</a>, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/04/27/warming-up/">tous les gens que j&#8217;ai rencontrés</a>, <a href="http://www.followtheway.info/2007/06/04/aragats/">les randos dans la montagne</a>, mais cette situation m&#8217;entrainait dans une spirale routinière, la même qui m&#8217;avait poussé à quitter Paris, puis la France.</p>
<p>Un retour à zéro reste donc le meilleur remède. Alors non cela ne sera pas évident (je le disais au début, mais la seule constant dans la vie restant le changement, alors restons constant :)<br />
.<br />
.</p>
<li><strong><em>Recoller à la réalité &#8220;française&#8221;</em></strong></li>
<p>Oui, parce que cela reste encore mon pays de rattachement, je n&#8217;ai toujours pas décidé de m&#8217;installer ailleurs pour du long terme.<br />
Mais après avoir passé 1 an dans un cadre hors du commun (aussi bien humain que pro),  je pense avoir besoin de recoller à une réalité plus pragmatique.<br />
Trop d&#8217;étrangers se sont laissés enivrés par un système qui pousse comme trop souvent  les occidentaux sur un piedéstal (c&#8217;est d&#8217;ailleurs le cas dans beaucoup de pays du tiers monde d&#8217;ailleurs).<br />
Mauvais pour l&#8217;égo, et donc la productivité.</p>
<p>Et puis je n&#8217;ai pas envie de finir <a href="http://humanpath.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/dromomania/">dromomaniaque</a>.<br />
.<br />
.</p>
<li><strong><em>Retour à la &#8220;vie normale&#8221;?</em></strong></li>
<p>En tout cas dans un premier temps sur Paris, pour chercher du travail, sans limitation géographique, réellement professionnelle (même si je connais mes limites)</p>
<p>J&#8217;avoue que je suis assez paumé au niveau technique et que par conséquence je me vois mal retourner dans une SSII.<br />
J&#8217;ai commencé à doucement postuler à quelques offres (gestion de projets web dans l&#8217;évévementiel, business development pour un fournisseur d&#8217;accès satellite, et entrepreneur social (???) dans une ONG française).</p>
<p>Vous l&#8217;avez compris je cherche un projet atypique, en dehors des circuits tout tracés de la filière ingénieur informatique, des dress codes, du sacro-saint costard cravate, de la stabilité routinière, des plans de carrière et des prévisions sur du long terme<br />
.<br />
.</p>
<li><strong><em>Et dans l&#8217;immédiat?</em></strong></li>
<p><a href="http://www.onedayinyourlife.org"><br />
One Day In Your Life</a> avance petit à petit, déjà 5 soumissions, j&#8217;en attends encore 5 autres pour lancer la machine.</p>
<p>Je finis donc mon contrat avec <a href="http://www.cooperation.net/kasa">KASA</a> dans 3 semaines maintenant.</p>
<p>Je vais ensuite en profiter pour voyager un peu autour de l&#8217;Arménie, je pensais partir en Iran, mais je vais plutôt me tourner vers la Géorgie et la Turquie (la Syrie et pourquoi pas finir au Liban après tout). 3 semaines &#8211; un mois. Avec quelques amis du Hospitality Club.</p>
<p>Voilà pour du bon gros pavé de news, donnez des votres dans les commentaires :)</p>
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		<title>Armenia : 1 / Poland : 0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>One of the biggest news these last few days is that &#8220;our&#8221; armenian football team <a href="http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/fixturesresults/round=2241/match=83780/index.html" target="_blank">beated Poland, 1.0</a>, for <a href="http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/standings/round=2241/group=2630.html" target="_blank">Euro 2008 qualifiers</a>. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/535624600_26ec414fbb.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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The second victory in 2 games, <a href="http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/fixturesresults/round=2241/match=83775/index.html" target="_blank">after winning Kazakhstan</a>&#8230;</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the biggest news these last few days is that &#8220;our&#8221; armenian football team <a href="http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/fixturesresults/round=2241/match=83780/index.html" target="_blank">beated Poland, 1.0</a>, for <a href="http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/standings/round=2241/group=2630.html" target="_blank">Euro 2008 qualifiers</a>. </p>
<p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/195/535624600_26ec414fbb.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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The second victory in 2 games, <a href="http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/fixturesresults/round=2241/match=83775/index.html" target="_blank">after winning Kazakhstan 2.1, 1 week ago.</a></p>
<p>It was a crazy night, people celebrating in the streets. I heard it was the 1st home victory for at least two years.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cilicia.com/2007/06/football.html">Nareg @ Life in Armenia</a> and <a href="http://www.blogrel.com/2007/06/07/armenia-1-0-poland/">Harmick @ Blogrel</a> wrote about it.</p>
<p>I was in the stadium, with my camera. So here are some pictures.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/245/535742359_14e056501b.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/238/535625754_7ed8d59861.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/535624232_30c2236362.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>And some more are available on <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/followyoureyes/tags/armeniapoland/">my Flickr page.</a></p>
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