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el mano de dios I never thought that football would accompany me through my important life milestones. El Mano de Dios - Diego - Ronaldinho - Argentina - Brazil. Many years have passed since I was 11 years old, watching the World Cup, when my gaze stopped on Ronaldinho. My God, how handsome he looked to me. I saw the flags of Argentina and Brazil and thought that these were the two most beautiful…
on ugly cities you dream of leaving I walk these streets, or, well, more precisely, I ride through them in an Uber, because it’s dangerous to walk here, and I keep thinking: what is all this for? I’m in one of the most dangerous provinces in Argentina, and it reminds me of the city where I was born, 11,000 kilometers away from Argentina. I hated that city. My only desire was to leave it forever…
Keep on being unnoticed I so want you to like me. Yes, you, a person I don’t know and will never know. I so want you to think, “wow, she managed to write something I would have wanted to write, if I had found the way to say it.” I want you to admire how I use language, how smart I am. I want to stay in your head at least until the end of the day, or at least until you go to eat. I so often catch…
Action is the key I am leaving and arriving. I stay in the homes of people I don’t know and whom I will never see again. Today I was a facilitator in a very unpleasant case. One girl is an exchange student from Australia who, after three months in Argentina, hasn’t learned Spanish, and the other is her host sister. Do you look at people’s actions while listening to what they say? Or do you look at…
My South — someone else’s North I don’t know what to write here. Today is April 8. I flew to Argentina on March 27, and since then it feels like several months have already passed — so much has happened. For the first time in my life I missed a flight, for the first time in my life I took a transatlantic flight, for the first time I’m on another continent, for the first time .... — so many firsts…
- how unlikely it was that id be here, eating empanades, looking at the scenery and thinking about how i miss yerevan and f. I feel anger, envy, sadness, uslessness and my self-confidence is reaching the absolute low. I feel like I don't deserve things, I feel like things I deserve are not supposed to be deserved??? I feel like every choice I made in my late 20s was wrong. I feel like I need to…
rejections You know when it happens - something that you think of as a destiny, like everything came together for you to do that particular thing to reach your goal. And boom - you don't reach your goal. The life goes on but you are stuck in the moment you got the rejection asking yourself/people/ the universe about what have just happened. It can't be true you say, the flow was so smooth it…
What happens on March 31, 2026 Missed my flight because of the misplanning of my supervisor Discovered that Ronaldinho went to Paraguyan prison because of a fake ID that he didn even have to use in Paraguay and he won in the prison's championship Hung out with the most amazing, hospitable soulmate that I saw 2 times Promoted Armenia to my new Brazilian friend Paid 42k for a taci to the airport…
A “better” environment for kids The first time in the southern part of the planet. Now I understand what D. meant when he said he agrees that Armenia doesn’t belong to the “Latino belt” countries. Now I understand the derogatory sense behind calling a country “European.” F. said he’d want his kids to grow up somewhere like Spain — not because he thinks it’s a “better” environment, but because he…
zuri - argentina I'm in Zuri. Again. The city I hate. The city that gave me money to live, to travel and to buy my skin care products. In 2 weeks I'm going to Argentina. How crazy is that? I'm sitting in my apartment in zuri and thinking - if anybody would have told 18 yo me that in 10 years I'd have visited Switzerland several times, staying there for a month once, and would NOT have liked the…