Old comfy clothes and new roots
A lot has happened since I wrote my last post slightly over a year ago. I cried many more tears over Dibar’s death and had other personal issues to deal with as well. Meanwhile, I continued to teach Dutch and had more students than I ever had before. There were weeks when I was exhausted [...]
On eggs, chess, cyber granny and more
It’s already been a week, that I made my latest contribution to Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s (aka Wereldomroep) program Wereldnet. Time passed so quickly and I only now realized I hadn’t posted the link to the podcast yet. So here it is. This time I talked about the Genocide Memorial Day on April 24, about cyber [...]
Love letter to my students
I have taught Dutch to private students in Yerevan for almost five years now. I am not a (language) teacher by profession and teaching languages is definitely not my calling in life. I don’t see myself standing in front of a classroom full of pupils or students, for example. I taught German and English for a [...]
Yerevan’s old and new mayor
This morning I held my regular talk for Radio Netherlands Worldwide radio-station (Wereldomroep). One of the topics I discussed was the recent change of mayors in Yerevan and changes new mayor Karen Karapetian pushed through that are not necessarily increasing his popularity with everyone, notably firing district heads, setting up language classes for the townhall’s [...]
