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 [...]
Reflections on a weekend in Goris
I spent last weekend down south in Goris with my friend Adrineh. We left Yerevan by marshrutka early in the morning and as always, once we hit the mountains outside the city, I started drinking in the landscape. Once again I realized how much I love getting out of the city and how, deep down [...]
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Tess Durbeyfield is a sixteen year old country girl, naive, not yet a woman, the daughter of a drunk almost-good-for-nothing and the oldest of seven children. When her father finds out that the Durbeyfields are really the descendants of the ancient and wealthy D’Urberville family, he sends her to their relatives to claim some of [...]
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
I read plenty of books since I last blogged, but I didn’t feel like writing about them, though I did enjoy most of them. O Pioneers! is the first book I feel like blogging about and even writing this blogpost took me something like two weeks. That shows how out of blogging-shape I am… This [...]
