May 21, 2012
Today was so exciting because we went to Gomidas’ Aiki. I thought that only Gomidas’ gravestone is there, but I was totally wrong. There is so many intellectuals’ gravestones that you name it and you see it. We took a lot of pictures that it was getting annoying! There was even a bench that said Yerevan on it in Armenian. It was so cool!
On the way to Artsakh, we went to Khor Virab. At the bottom of the church were two dungeons and in one of them Krikor Lusavoritch was thrown in it. One dungeon was big and the other was small. Everyone was scared to go in (including me). I was really scared, but my mom told me that this is once in a lifetime thing, and after when most of my friends went, they told me it’s soooooo cool.
After a while I decided to try the dungeon that Krikor Lusavoritch was in. It was kind of scary at first, but then I got used to it and went down. It was really big and cool. We were all jumping around everywhere. There were pictures and one cross. We found the hole that Khosrovatookht (Dirtad Takavor’s sister), dropped bread and water to Krikor Lusavoritch every day. It was awesome! But the most exciting thing we saw was Ararat from the closest point you could ever see it. That was awesome!
The third thing we did today was to go to Noravank. It was really fun because when you climb up the stairs you think that you are actually rock climbing. There is still a ‘but” though. The stairs are so narrow. When I go to the top of the stairs, everyone told me to go back and not look down, but I still did! It feels like you are the king of the world when you are up there. (Just saying that it’s a good feeling). Noravank was the best!
The last fun and interesting thing we did was go to Karahung. When we were walking to go there, Juliana saw a puddle of mud, but she didn’t know that and she said “Oh that looks cool,” and she stepped in it and her new shoes got all mud. It was really funny. When we got Karahung, there were so many builders and everyone kept on climbing them and taking pictures on them. It was great!
By Karyl Ashjian