May 22, 2012
Today we went to the school of Khachadour Apovian in Shoushi. We met the fifth graders there, and became friends with each other. We sang and recited poems for the fifth graders there. They also sang and recited poems for us too. Then, we gave each other telephone numbers and addresses, so we could keep in touch with each other.
Then, we walked to the church called Sourp Amenapergich. The church was built in 1868. The church had held manuscripts in hermit rooms under the alter. This church has been a weapon storage for the Azeris, until 1992 when Shoushi became liberated by Armenian freedom fighters. We visited a room under the church, that when you stand in the center of the room and say something looking up, the words will echo through the room. When we left the church, it started to hail on us very badly. The hail was very big and hard. We managed to reach the bus in the hail and rain. When we went in the bus, we sat down and went to the Shoushi Grand Hotel, to eat lunch. When we finished eating lunch, we went to Amaras.
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