going to the chapel
no, im not really getting married, but i did get my first marriage proposal ("take her to the states, please take her to the states"). i was beginning to feel left out, the girls get proposals all the time (everyone has a nice son or nephew). so the story goes like this:
this weekend, we went to a children's church camp in vanadzor, the third largest city in armenia. one of the girls that worked there was quite cute. i eyed her, she eyed me, you could say we were eyeing each other. well, after our last meal, grandma comes out screaming for someone to take her to the states. of course lusine (the girls name was also lusine, actually) has to say, "oh chris was making eyes at her!" so grandma comes running. lusine explains mom and dad wouldn't be too happy, since i have to finish university. grandma quickly replies that she could come to the states and go to university too, and then we could get married. whadya say to that? good times.
so the children's camp was really fun. some of the kids were amazingly cute, and kids are just so genuine. a couple of the boys wanted areen and i to stay with them in their room and hang out with them. quite cute. on sunday we walked ("marched") with them down to the dioscese headquarters and lit candles with them. but im a little ahead of myself.
saturday, we went to haghbad. i had been there before, but forgotten the name. its a monastic complex with about 7 separate altars, and one particularly powerful church with a great fresco. (i really do need to figure out how to post pictures). we met with the priest there, and instead of etchmiadzin, i may stay there for the last two weeks of my trip. which would be awesome, because id be the only deacon there, plus id help out with a camp they are going to do. pluuus, i could go visit lusine at the other camp everytime i went into vanadzor (just kidding, parents and family!). well, i mean, i may visit. we also went to sanahin, another very impressive monastic complex, but it was late, and closed, so we made our way into the courtyard areas. it was raining, and one of the little churches was open, so i sang in this little church with good acoustics in the rain. pretty cool.
sunday, after getting a marriage proposal and walking the kids to the dioscese, we went to badarak at a different church in vanadzor, fairly new. then we drove to gyumri, the second largest city in the country. there, we saw their largest church, which is still being rebuild. gyumri was the largest city that was close to the 1988 earthquake, and was pretty devastated. after going to the church (there was a wedding going on)- we ate khorovadz, and then got on the road.
our last stop was at talin, a site with two very old churches. one is in relative dissary, although still quite impressive. the coloration of the churches was great. very pretty.
basically, another successful weekend, now im going to take five minutes to try to figure out the picture thing.
this weekend, we went to a children's church camp in vanadzor, the third largest city in armenia. one of the girls that worked there was quite cute. i eyed her, she eyed me, you could say we were eyeing each other. well, after our last meal, grandma comes out screaming for someone to take her to the states. of course lusine (the girls name was also lusine, actually) has to say, "oh chris was making eyes at her!" so grandma comes running. lusine explains mom and dad wouldn't be too happy, since i have to finish university. grandma quickly replies that she could come to the states and go to university too, and then we could get married. whadya say to that? good times.
so the children's camp was really fun. some of the kids were amazingly cute, and kids are just so genuine. a couple of the boys wanted areen and i to stay with them in their room and hang out with them. quite cute. on sunday we walked ("marched") with them down to the dioscese headquarters and lit candles with them. but im a little ahead of myself.
saturday, we went to haghbad. i had been there before, but forgotten the name. its a monastic complex with about 7 separate altars, and one particularly powerful church with a great fresco. (i really do need to figure out how to post pictures). we met with the priest there, and instead of etchmiadzin, i may stay there for the last two weeks of my trip. which would be awesome, because id be the only deacon there, plus id help out with a camp they are going to do. pluuus, i could go visit lusine at the other camp everytime i went into vanadzor (just kidding, parents and family!). well, i mean, i may visit. we also went to sanahin, another very impressive monastic complex, but it was late, and closed, so we made our way into the courtyard areas. it was raining, and one of the little churches was open, so i sang in this little church with good acoustics in the rain. pretty cool.
sunday, after getting a marriage proposal and walking the kids to the dioscese, we went to badarak at a different church in vanadzor, fairly new. then we drove to gyumri, the second largest city in the country. there, we saw their largest church, which is still being rebuild. gyumri was the largest city that was close to the 1988 earthquake, and was pretty devastated. after going to the church (there was a wedding going on)- we ate khorovadz, and then got on the road.
our last stop was at talin, a site with two very old churches. one is in relative dissary, although still quite impressive. the coloration of the churches was great. very pretty.
basically, another successful weekend, now im going to take five minutes to try to figure out the picture thing.
posted by chrisdapor | 9:43 PM
2 Comments:
so chris, i love you postings, and the your writing style is impecable....but the pics are hella necessary! i dont really know how to walk you through it, but when i did it, you have to download this program onto your computer for it to work....so i dont know how that is going to fly if you are using an internet cafe.
keep having a good time, and keep up with the postings. be careful making eyes are armenian girls...you might be able to escapce them, but their grandmothers are a whole 'nother story....
Just letting you know that your Visalia Grandma wants to meet the "grandma" in your posting. Let's just say she not happy with her!
Horkoor
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