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I think it’s a good chance to renew my knowledge about Turkey and Turkish
people. The new generation must change the situation and find solutions to
problems between our 2 countries, which is impossible without contacts. I hope
we’ll get acquainted with young people from Turkey, we’ll discuss many
interesting and important topics, we’ll understand their feelings and thoughts.
I also expect that this will be a good trip and holiday for me. I’ll see
interesting places that were part of my homeland many years ago. I hope I’ll
have many new friends by the end of the school. Thanks!
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| 10.08.05
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The first thing I saw from airplane window was the lights of the city with 12
million people.
It was impressive. In the morning I was woken up by the voice coming from the
window: the azan (molla) was praying, I started to discover Turkey the Muslim
world, Muslim culture from that moments. It’s still very strange and new for
me. But it turned out that Istanbul is more European. We had a long journey
with Turkish young people, they are so lovely.
The worst memories of the day are about bus trip from Adana to Antakya. It was
too hot and we also didn’t manage to have a sleep. At the end of the day I
couldn’t even speak. I was tired enough to lay and sleep for days but after the
shower we went for a walk. I already know several Turkish words, I’ve heard
Turkish songs. I thing we’ll be good friends.
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| 11.08.05
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Yesterday was the second day of the school. I was writing an article for our
newspaper. It was the main story of the paper & it was about our journey to
Antakya & about the school, our feelings in general. I’m a journalist so it
was not very hard work for me in spite of it was my first English-language
article.
We had a very romantic end of the day. At night we were singing
Armenian-Turkish-English songs all together in a room.
It was very late when I went to sleep.
Love my new friends very much I’m happy to realize that they are very
nice&kind&funny and we can be good friends.
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| 12.08.05
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It was very funny and interesting yesterday. We had so much fun. During the
yesterday journey we were just joking all the time and we saw so many
interesting places. I was shocked when I saw one of the first Christian
churches were apostals were two thousand years ago. I couldn’t believe my eyes.
We also visited a museum with very beautiful ancient exporates. I really didn’t
like the food in the restaurant very much. But we did shopping we bought bags,
silk etc.
I took lots of photos.
In general I liked the day very much.
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| 13.08.05
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The first thing I remember from this day is the visit to the Armenian village.
We danced a lot and we also sang Armenian songs. There were over 200 Armenians
from all over the world. And all this was taking place in Turkey… I couldn’t
believe my eyes and ears. It was really great. We had also very interesting
lectures on globalization an civil society. And we met our new teacher Markar
Esanyan and we had a language course at last. Now I know Turkish alphabet.
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| 14.08.05
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Oh it was Sunday and we didn’t have any classes. We were at a leturgy in
Armenian church which was very important for me. They we ate harrisa. We have
harissa in Armenia, in the village called Musaler. Then I made an interview
with Avetis baba- the eldest man in the village. He told me about himself and
about the only Armenian village left in Turkey.
Since we are in Turkey I’ve been waiting impatiently to swim in the sea. But
when I saw the dirty beach I was a little bit disappointed. Anyway it was a
sea… I had a very good time that day.
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| 15.08.05
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Yesterday’s lecture were the most interesting for me as I’m a journalist.
Bella&Arman had ? as well. Then we went to bazaar and did some shopping.
After that we went to Orthodox Church. It was a very beautiful church. It was
very interesting to walk in the city. You know there so many restaurants
everywhere in Turkey. I think Turks like to eat very much. :)
Late in the evening we went to lunapark. Though I’m coughing& I’ve caught a
cold I think I’m ok cause I’m having a good time with my Turkish&Armenian
friends. They are all very funny. I love them.
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