Tufenkian Avan Dzoraget Hotel Alaverdi

... Sevan.

Sevan is the name of the largest lake of Armenia and also a name of a city on its northern shore. Besides its beaches and summer activities, it also has the Hayravank Monastery that is 1100 years old, situated on a promontory that has the finest view of the lake. We wanted to visit it but being in the height of the summer, lodging would be expensive and hard to come by, so we stayed in Dilijan, a small city in the mountains just 30 minutes away, and made day trip to Sevan ...

The north of Armenia is called Little Switzerland as it is many more trees, is green, and is in the Lesser Caucasus mountains. Today I visited Haghartsin and Haghpat monasteries, both UNESCO World Heritage sites (in fact, all the monasteries I visited in Armenia are UNESCO sites), before making my to the ...

... super. A nakonec jsme byli mnohem radsi, ze se postizene deti dobre bavily a ze mely diky nam nejakou zabavu. Po odchodu deti po predstaveni jsme uklidili skolu, sedli si do spolecenske mistnosti, popijeli vino a caj a mlceli, abychom si uzili to ticho a ulevu, ze uz je to za nami. Vecer jsem jela do Spitaku na internet, ktery ale bohuzel nefungoval, ale prijemne jsem se prosla po meste s pocitem, ze uz jsem tu svuj kus prace odvedla.

... kraje, jine zvyky a prichazeji na to, ze svet je krasny a lide se maji mit radi a tak dale. Mame tu jedno devce ze Slovinska - Jonu - ktera delala folklorni tance, takze jsem prezentaci nasi kultury ponechala na ni a zrekla se Ceske republiky. Erwin se stejne tak zrekl Belgie a Rose Holandska. Oba odmitli pet minut stat, mavat rukou a tvarit se jako vetrny mlyn. A tak Erwin a Rose delaji Indii ...

... alkoholu. Na vecernim mitinku jsem predevcirem rekla, ze cim driv si uvedomime, ze mistni deti nezmenime a nenaucime je poslouchat a byt v klidu, tim driv se nam podari se pres to prenest. Ovsem vcera byly deti rozdeleny do ctyr skupin misto tri - tedy tak jak to melo byt od sameho zacatku. A svete div se, najednou byly ticho, poslouchaly, stacilo rict jim nazev hry a samy se rozdelily do druzstev. Neverila jsem svym ocim a byla jsem naprosto dojata, i presto ze uz ...

... art, drama+english - drama a anglictina jsou spolecne protoze jsme puvodne mysleli, ze budou ctyri skupiny deti - a od pondeli take nejspis budou. Ja jsem jedna ze tri osob zodpovednych za sport. Vybrala jsem si to, abych mohla litat venku a nemusela posedavat vevnitr. Se mnou jsou dve super devcata z Danska - Berit a Katrina - a prekladatele nam dela Senbat (nevim jak se to pise, sorry). Po obede mame tri ruzne jine aktivity - vcera to byla Salsa, venkovni ...

... while Baidi was with me. Anyway. Now she was gone. I didn't really care where we would go. Georgia seemed grey, sad and cold to me at the moment. Moreover I was sick. I missed Baidi. I couldn't stand being without her. So I changed my ticket to go back to Germany earlier than I had planned before ...

You know the expression: Till the cows come home? Well, when I came here, I heard that the cows are just let out into the street and left to wander in the streets and hills and mountains. And then I was told that the cows would walk themselves home. I thought, yeah right. Well, one day I was sitting on our porch (which happens to be on the second floor) and it was getting dark out and our gate was open but then I heard some banging over by the gate ...

I am getting ready to move again. I had all my village people over to my house on Tuesday and we cooked pizza and soup for my Amma my host mother. Then, in proper Armenian fashion, we made toasts to each other. I had told Amma the day before that I would miss her when I moved to Dilijan. She said that Dilijan is so close, I will be back often. In fact, she and I already have plans to go to the shuka in a month or so, so she can help ...

Well, I did it. I am finished with my second pst in 7 months. Yup, I have been gone for seven months now. There was a couple of things that I forgot to tell you about during this time. One of them is a little thing. The last night in Tashkent, UZ, my friend Kjestine burned a cd for me. It was quite a popular cd with our training group called Hits of Asia Two. Well, I listen to it whenever I travel around Armenia. The funny thing is that because the roads are rather bumpy, the ...