Today was an amazing day! We visited the statue of Alexander Tamanyan, Alexander Tamanyan was a jardarabed (someone that draws places and people build it) which drew Yerevan’s outline. The statue was him leaning on a table, looking at the map he drew. Next to the statue of Alexander Tamanyan, there was an overview of the map he drew.
The next thing we did was visit the school in Yerevan. The name of the school was Ananya Shiragatsi. At the school we got to visit all of the 5th grade classes. We went to their English class, a class about churches and the history about Armenians, the interesting thing was that the kids that the Armenians kids that live in Boston know the same thinks the the kids in Armenia know. In another class we watched a movie about the western Armenia. The thing we all loved about going to that school is that we made friends with the kids, and after they showed us their dance we got up and danced an Armenian dance for them too. (kochari and kertsie) After that we got to eat lunch with them everyone wanted to sit next to all of us. We also got hand made cell phone cases.
The next cool thing we did was go to Karin to visit Armenia Tree Project Education Center. There we met more Armenian kids, and when we walked in we saw that there were people video taping us. The kids there showed us a little play about trees and plants, and how to recycle and protect the environment and importance of planting trees. We each got hand sowed bracelets from the kids, they were red, blue, orange. After all of the kids left we got to plant trees wall we were being video taped, it was the 15th anniversary. There was a little pot filled with soil. We dug a little hole in it with our finger, and then we put two seeds in it and covered it. After we did that we dumped a cup filled with water.
The last thing we did was go to a restaurant in the hotel. It was an Italian restaurant. The food was really good, we had chicken and pasta.
GOODBYE! Be good.
Oooooooooo I missed something we went to the singing waters.
Bad news the Turk soccer team beat the Armenian soccer team, and one more thing the Turk soccer team was staying in our hotel.
Meghri Dervartanian and
Nina Vosbigian