Deja vu in Charentsavan

Today in the evening I went with my "colleagues" from People in need to see one of their projects in a small town called Charentsavan. They do requalification courses, advisory on how to find a job, language and computer classes and they run also a cultural centre. It was so good to see the familiar logo everywhere. It really felt like back home.
Whatever, after the short excursion we went to some kind of a family celebration of one of the workers there. It was like an awful night mare of mine that happened already many times in Tajikistan before. Imagine a table full of dishes that either you don't like or they make you feel sick. And now, as a guest from abroad I had to try all of them. Damn.
When we came, there were already two pretty drunk grand-fathers so when they found out I am coming from Czech Republic they started to share their stories from war, some sport tournaments and I don't know what else. A lot of rounds of vodka were going on and they kept thanking to Czech Republic for having People in need and helping Armenia. That was pretty nice I must say (but still I was fighting with my plate full of local dishes).
Of course all this was happening in Armenian so the most important parts (thank you's) were translated to me but 95% of the conversation was not. so this grand-father kept drinking vodka, speaking to me in Armenian and laughing. Well, what would you do? I was looking at him, listening to him and smiling. It really seemed we are having pretty good conversation so my colleague whispered to me in Russian: so you understand some Armenian. And I was like: no, nothing. She started to laugh and said: but you are doing very well. Good job. He is having fun :)
After some time (and more vodka and more local dishes) when I thought the conversation is not about me any more because there was no translation happening, Edo, the big boss of local People in need said: OK, I guess it is time to go right now unless you want to spend next 50 years in Armenia. They just started to arrange your marriage with one of the sons and they are quite serious about it. We left that very same minute with excuse of having some more business meetings tonight in Yerevan.
On the way back to the city the guys in the car were laughing. All this celebration was a great experience for them as well. As they said, it was like in one of those movies. Simply unbelievable.

On a completely different note: it is raining already fourth day in Yerevan. Surprise for everyone here.