May 25, 2012
Today we went to Alexander Tamanyan’s statue. When you first walk in you see all these pretty statues, but we only saw one statue that was of Alexander Tamanyan.We first went to the other side of the museum and we saw a beautiful flowery hedge in the middle of all the statues. They were very interesting to look at. We noticed that the Alexander Tamanyan statue had a map of Yerevan made as a sun. The streets going across were as a circle in a sun formation, and the streets going in colums were the suns’ rays. After, we went see the museum, but unfortunately it closed. So instead we went up for pictures. When we were going up we took the escalators. There must have been at least 15 escalators row after ,row after row. When we finally reached the top of Kascad there was a tower inside of different colored crystals. It was very cool because they were in different shapes and sizes. When we went out to the top floor of Kascad, we saw a beautiful sight of Ararat. I was sort of hoping that we would see the small mountain and big, but we only saw the big part.
We went to the Yerevan school and saw all the kids. When you would enter the school there would be paintings hung up on the wall. The school was much bigger than ours. They had like four buildings that were sort of like districts. After the teachers and some students showed us the slide show (they had made for us) we then went outside to play basketball in the basketball court.
Though it was very confusing because they had switched the teams so many times I only had remembered two people. Some people chose to play soccer instead on rocks and dirt and I didn’t want to play that because so many people fell and got cuts. Finally, we had to go to eat in the cafeteria. We ate cheese boregs and strawberry lemonade. Although I really couldn’t taste the cheese that well.
The Armenian tree project was very good and bad at the same time. I feel that some people do not take the planting trees seriously. It feels good to be planting some oxygen to this earth. It would be absolutely perfect if everybody sang “mer hairenig” altogether because some people were laughing and that isn’t good to do during that time. I was a little bit, expecting that we would plant it in the ground and water it with seeds and everything and dig a hole to plant it in. But it was okay because we still did half of what I thought we would do, such as: watering, and planting the seeds. Altogether I am mostly glad we got to go to the Armenian tree project and not let something get in the way of going. So I hope that some people will go visit the Armenia tree project and water our trees!
By Juliana Rizza