Wednesday, June 3, 2009
This morning I woke up and said to myself, “Oh no! It’s the last full day in Armenia!” Then I thought about it a little and said “It’s o.k. – I’m going to see my friends and family in America.” Now I am going to tell you what I saw and learned today.
This morning we first drove by the Krikor Lousavorich church, which was built in 2001, celebrating 1700 years of Armenians adopting Christianity. It’s the biggest cathedral in Armenia.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Today we went to the metro Station which was really fast. Next we went to Madenataran and we saw the statue of Mesrob Mashdoz. Next in the museum we saw one of the worlds smallest books. It was called a “Tzoog”. It had 103 pages and it is used in church for prayers. We also saw “Hsga” one of the largest books in the world with 604 pages.
After that we saw bibles that were translated from Greek to Armenian. Next we saw Vortan Garmir which makes the color red. Then we saw the book that the president pledges on. That book is the oldest one that was made in the 7th century.
We went to Grand Candy where there was a lot of candy but most of it was chocolate. Digin Ademis got plenty of candy for everyone at the school.
Next we went to the opera house where we saw a bale about ancient times where kings would kidnap and imprison inanest people ,but at the the end one of the prisoners get killed which was very sad.
Today was one of the most funniest days because of all the cool places we visited.
By: Koko Boyajian
Monday, June 1, 2009
Today we came back to Yerevan from Karabagh. On the way back, we stopped in Berdzor, along the Lachin Corridor in Artsakh, to plant trees. It was messy but it felt good. I felt like I was helping Armenia. There was a plaque dedicated to St. Stephen’s.
We then entered Armenia. Our first stop was Jermuk, where we went to the factory and looked at how Jermuk was bottled. It is amazing it takes so many machines to make one bottle. The container starts out as one tiny bottle and it becomeshuge. The factory is very noisy and full of rhythm of machines. After that we went to the waterfall where it comes. Near it were carvings of Armenian freedom fighters.
As we were coming back to Yerevan, we saw rivers, canyons, trees, hills, mountains, grass, bushes and rocks. Everything was full of nature.At the end of the day we went to dinner to Jazzve and finally came to the hotel. It was a wonderful day.
By Tenny Gregorian