Surprise!
In the last few days, I've had a few surprises. Some good, some bad, but all a little surprising.
My first surprise came on Saturday while I was grocery shopping. I went to a small store near my house that I tend to go to when I don't need a lot of things. Like in most stores, the people there tend to ignore me, which is fine. There is one woman, who I assume is the boss, I have interacted with a few times, mostly through miming and her saying things in Armenian that I don't understand. So there I was, standing at their little deli counter, trying to figure out which cheese I wanted, when The Boss Lady came up to me and said, in perfect English, "do you want some cheese?" I almost did one of those TV head-shake-with-eyes-closed things. For the last 2 and a half months, she's spoken to me only in Armenian (if at all) and then all of a sudden, bam! Perfect English. I almost fell over.
When I got to the office on Tuesday morning, I was talking to one of my co-workers, who was telling me she had so much to do before she left to go to a training program. "I have so much work to do!" she said, adding "and the holiday on Monday is not helping!" Holiday on Monday? What? We just had a holiday! Turns out we get May Day (1 May) off. Oh and you know what else? 9 May is Victory and Peace Day. You guessed it - another holiday off. That's 3 holidays in 3 weeks. Yep, good surprise.
And lastly, bugs in Armenia do not die. They don't. I had a bug in my shower which I tried to drown, but it wouldn't go down the drain. So I figured I'd shut the shower door and let it dry out so I could squish it. When I opened the door a few hours later, there was the bug, on its back, looking quite dead. "Good," I thought to myself. "This is much easier." In I reached with a tissue to take out Mr. Bug. But it had different ideas. As soon as the tissue touched it, the bug starting kicking his legs around wildly, trying to right itself. Ok, what happened to the dead bug? This is not Night of the Living Dead Bug! Freaked out, I dropped the tissue over the bug, hoping it would decide to go back to dead. That night, I went back to check on it. Still kicking. I knew I had to get it out of the shower so I could use it, so I tried to squish it. Sucker ran out from under my squishing! On the 4th try, I think I finally got it, but I can't be sure because it didn't seem like anything squished, but when I picked up the tissues, there was no bug to be seen, in the shower or anywhere else. Not being one to question it, I threw it all into the toilet and quickly flushed. So either I finally won, or there is one pissed off, immortal bug running around my apartment.
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