EXPECTATION
Getting a chance to take part in summer school in Turkey is very important for me not only because I was chosen out of many other but also I’ll get to meet many Turkish people who may have lots of things in common with us-Armenians.
I also hope to meet intelligent young students from Turkish universities. In fact, I am almost sure that those young people who we are going to spend the summer school are progressive and believe in the future of Armenian&Turkish relations.
In the matter of fact I expect to learn and to teach things. Unluckily I didn’t have much time to write about my expectations and so didn’t write down everything.
10.08.05
We arrived at the airport… I didn’t know actually couldn’t realize where I was. I needed time… while getting to know other participants&lecturers, my attitude towards the surrounding atmosphere started changing and becoming clearer to me. Now I can say with confidence: “We came here to make a change.” This might sound not suitable but that’s what I feel right now.
Also will never forget my new friend who’s an Armenian in the Turkish group. She made me smile during the long journey when I was so exhausted.
I also liked Elif and M.Ali from the Turkish group. We all sang together on the bus and made a comfortable atmosphere for everyone though the small kids were very unhappy with that noisy environment. :)
It was fun&funny. Hope this type of communication will go on during the whole seminar.
12.08.05
The day started with writing an article in our newspaper then we had a very informative lecture on “Comparative Literature”.
We had free time after Nisanyan’s lecture and went to Mosaic Museum, St.Pierre’s Church and to the Harbiye’s Waterfalls after which we had dinner then came back to the hotel.
I had a very exciting day and even had a good shopping.
