St. Stephen's Armenian School

June 1, 2011

Today we started the day with a delicious breakfast. We all loved it! Then we hit the road.

We were going to the Madenataran. It’s a place where we preserve books from the 9th to 19th century . We saw bibles, medicine books, and alchemy books. One of the books showed how to make glue out of the juice you get from onions and rice. They received red paint from the vortan karmir, blue paint from minerals, yellow paint from gold dust, green paint from copper oxide, and black paint from the dust on the macadamia nut. There were also Persian, Byzantine, Ottoman, Greek, and Arab manuscripts alongside the Armenian ones.
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May 31, 2011

Today we woke up early in the morning and had breakfast. We ate eggs, pancakes, waffles, and cupcakes. We drank apple juice, hot chocolate, orange juice, and tea. It was so good. Now we are heading to Lori region. It is about 3 hours away.

On the way to Lori region we passed through earth quake areas (Spitak ). Spitak was constructed but there was still some buildings that needed to be rebuilt.

At Lori region we went to see Hovanhess Toumanians museum. His house was turned into a museum. When we first got into his house we smelled smoke, throughout the year, five to six times they make lavash bread. This was the only house in the village that made lavash. The first room that we went in did not have any windows. It was a storage room where they kept flour. Hovanness Toumanian had a big family. He had seven siblings, four brothers and three sisters.
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