[Heltonfan]

Q: why didn't you just buy the flowers?

Because that would have been letting the terrorists win? Seriously, good question. It didn't occur to us.

I suppose you can get everything you need on the internet, box scores, games, and US here at Fanhome of course.

Yep. The only thing I can't do is actually watch or listen to the games, because I'm on a dial-up connection (broadband exists, but costs like $125 a month. It's insane).

Soccer is indeed the sport of choice here. But it seems to me that sports in general aren't as popular here as they are in the States. At any rate, the concept of sports fandom is nowhere near as well developed. Sports are not water-cooler conversation here. Probably because Armenia is too small to have leagues of its own, and is also too small to field competitive teams on the international stage. Except in chess. Armenia won the world chess championships a couple years ago (beating big brother Russia), which was a huge thing.

I hear so many stories of this kind... has Armenia yet held similar experiences?

Not that I've seen or heard of, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least. And on a related note, I am quite afraid of what the quality of medical care here might be. I have yet to need to avail myself of it.