[Heltonfan]

I mean can you speak Armenian as well?

Of course. I studied it at ASU before coming here; I'd never want to live somewhere without knowing the language.

TIR, nice story about your sister; that's a bold adventure indeed. Japanese scares the hell out of me. I'm restricting myself to European (or near-European, depending on how you categorize Armenia) languages for the time being.

One can get by with either Armenian or Russian here, but I haven't yet managed to develop my Russian to any useful level. It always cracks me up that Armenians are so convinced that their native language is extraordinarily difficult, when their second language is much, much harder.

Are you teaching them about baseball as well? Sabremetrics? Liberal politics? Do you wear your Obama button as you teach your class? What is class size like over there? Are there any hot Romanian babes in your class and do you give them preferential treatment? Hey - enquiring minds want to know.

I have wanted to take half an hour sometime and explain baseball to one of my classes, but since 80% or so of my students are girls, I fear that it wouldn't be very well received.

They don't need to be taught about liberal politics (and if they did, America would be a rather lousy example to use...). As you might imagine, by the very fact that they are devoting considerable time to studying English, they are pro-Western and non-insular in their thinking.

Class size depends on the institution. Where I'm teaching (at a private center), classes are 10 students at the most. The same class, at a university, would have probably double that amount (and I would imagine that lecture classes are an entirely different ballgame, just as they are in the States).

I can't give the hot babes preferential treatment, because "hot" is more or less the default here. It's rather incredible. Took me a couple months to adjust to the point of not being constantly distracted.