Today, after we had breakfast at our new hotel we are staying at, we headed off to the kindergarten school called Sose Mangabardez. The little kids all had a bunch of lines they performed in front of all of us and our parents. The boys and girls were singing and dancing as well, which is one of the reasons that Narine freaked out over them since they were so cute.
We sang and performed on two poems and songs for them but some of us were jealous because they were really talented. we gave treats and toys to the students.
Later on we visited Khachadour Apovian school and we met 5th grade students.There were 46 students obviously 40 more than us. Some performed individually, standing up, long poems. Some were shy but they did it very well and showed that they were really talented. We also gave them treats which they enjoyed.
After we performed a few things we headed outside and played soccer to get to know them better.
Than we headed off to Sourp Amenapergitch church. We had some candles to light and after that we went under the alter where there was a special place to confess and you could hear yourself in an awesome way.
Once we left we went to have lunch. We ate at Shoushi hotel and we had noodles, chicken, and other stuff that tasted amazing. We actually had a chance to play on a piano over there.
Then we went to one of my favorite parts, visiting the first tank that entered Shoushi. It was really cool climbing up the tank. I even saw the inside and climbed the cannon. From there I could see the bulls in the parking lot next to the bus. Luckily they didn’t get mad from Nathan’s red shirt. Unfortunately, for safety, we didn’t go near them.
After, we headed off to Amaras and on our way I met some nice girls around my age and gave them gifts.
Once we headed to Amaras, some of us saw snakes. We were told to keep an eye out around us, but we had no problems. We saw a room that was known as the wedding hall. There was a lot of writing on the wall, which isn’t good, probably for people to say they were there. I saw a pretty fireplace that had a carving of a man and women which was hard to notice at first but you get it afterwards.
There was another room that looked sorta the same, but the fire place didn’t have any carvings.
We had to climb some high stairs to see an old bathroom and it was shaped as a weird key but a bit bigger and smaller than our toilets.
Once we were all done, we went to dinner and we had so much fun. There was Armenian music and Narine, Ani, me and the rest of the class were dancing so much. Now that’s a way to end the night.
Talar Panossian