World AIDS Day is done

So, we finished up World AIDS Day 2008 in Armenia. I think it went great. I walked all over Yerevan handing out pamplets with the essential facts about HIV/AIDS, and has several great conversations about HIV/AIDS with people on the streets of Yerevan. All these conversations where in Armenian, and that combined with the walking made me very tired. But it was worth. The conversations we had were good, and I say alot of people intently reading the pamplets after we handed them out. I feel really good about what we did, and I feel like this is one of the best things we did.

I teamed up with my good friend Steve, and a groups of Armenain volunteers to hand out the pamplets. We had about 7 or 8 Peace Corp volunteers to canvass the city and a large group of Armenian volunteers that were rounded up by APEC, the NGO that we partnered with. The Armenian volunteers did great, we had a good time with them.

After handing our flyers all over the city, we did a showing of a movie called Transit which showed that HIV is spread through sexual intercourse, which I think was effective.

Overall, a good day to be a Peace Corp volunteers, I feel that we did a really good job in getting the facts out about HIV/AIDS, which in a region where people tend not to know all the facts about this pandemic, is very important.