Today we are going to be seeing many statues and monuments such as Sassountzi David, Vartan Mamigonian, Gomidas Vartabed’s museum, and many more. So far we have been to Sasountzi Davit’s statue, it was beautiful. The statue was made in 1967 by Yervant Kochar. He had placed the statue on water therefore it looked as if Sassountzi and his horse, Koorgig Jalaly were floating in the small body of water.
Next we drove to the Erebouni Museum. We took a picture in front of the Argishdi statue. The tour guide started at the Arin pert. It was made around the same time as Erebouni in 782 bc. Erebouni was made during the kingdom of Van. It was made by king Argishdi. There were old rocks with cuniform that was birth certificate of Yerevan. They said things about multiple gods and many things about kapi. We saw 2800 year old beams that they used to make homes. We learned about the 72 gods we used to believed in.
After that we traveled to the Vartan Mamigonian statue, wich was made in 1975 once again by Yervant Kochar. This statue was also an extraordinary statue that represents how much Armenians fight for their freedom. Vartan’s statue was a very brave looking and I hope I never forget it.
The last statue we went to was Alexander Tamanyans statue. We took a picture with the statue and saw the map of Erevan because he created the knew map of Erebouni. The map looked like a sun, so the city was nicknamed city of sun.
After we had gone to the statue Oriort Shushan, our tour guide, surprised us with bonchicks, which is fried dough with cream inside. They were really good, we all liked them. We went to lunch and ate sandwiches and burgers. We all liked the food and were full by the time we left.
After lunch, we went to Hovhannes Tumanians house museum. We saw the clothes he wore and the fancy shoes he wore in his house. They were fancy because he had guests over almost every day. We saw pictures and paintings of him and his family. He had 13 bookshelves and 10000 books. We saw the recreation of the box his heart was buried in.
Later we went to the museum of Gomedas. We saw all the journals he wrote in. We saw a lot of pictures of him and his friends and the picture of Cousan the choir he created which was made up of 300 people. We saw pictures of his pupils and inspiration. We also saw the instruments he used and the piano he used. We sang one of his songs “Gakavig” and took a picture then left.
We went to the graveyard of famous musicians “Gomidasi Ayki” which was just around the corner. We took a picture with Gomidas’ gravestone and left.
At the hotel most of us swam. Then we went back to our rooms to get ready for dinner at 8:00. Dinner was delicious. There was a small band and we all started to sing and dance. We danced “shourchbar” and Tamzara. Everybody had fun. We returned to the hotel tired because it was such a long, educational and fun day.
-Anais and Arinne
