Trip to Armenia with Emelie and Albin

If we were to explain our trip to Armenia with one word, it would be: Perfect!

We have made the best powerfull perfect organization before our trip. For exemple, the day before we went to Armenia, we hadn’t the number and the address of our contacts in Yerevan, we got the three sleeping bags at 23h00 the same day.

But, this technical question didn't stop us ! The 10 of September at 11h, we left for Armenia in martchoutka from Tbilisi.

Our driver was very rude towards the passengers but we arrived safe at Yerevan. After purchasing a sim card, we had called Anahit (the Armenian trainer from our “On Arrival Training”). In her office we found the phone number of Adela, our EVS contact in Armenia (Thank you Anahit).

We met Adela and she showed us where we could sleep. 

Adela cooked for us a delicious slovad dish

Emelie, Albin and I, we did some shopping and visited some beautiful places in Yerevan for the first four days. We met some other volunteers in Armenia (Michaela, Pauline,Tania an Irish drunk man and one girl from Germany), and some Armenian inhabitants ( Taron, Lilith, David and some more).
  

Albin and Emelie and Iron cow



Garden at Cascade in Yerevan

The fifth day we went in Garni and Geghard with Pauline, our taxi had a flat tire, so another taxi had to pick us up. In Garni we made the Perfect picture ! So now, you can stop taking pictures, we have THE perfect picture! 

THE perfect picture

In the evening we sought for the restaurant “caucavsus restaurant” to eat Armenian food. After a long time we finally found it with the help of three Armenian guys because Taron drew for us a nice, but very wrong map and we walked around in many streets in Yerevan. Tolma and Armenian spaghetti were very good. For us, It was the perfect day (I broke a pot of sugar in the morning, Emelie was eaten by mosquitoes, our taxi had a flat tire, a bad map, a violent storm with lighting and big rain felled on us during our walk in Yerevan etc…).

We came back the 16 of September by martchoutka again but with a better driver. Seven hours later, we arrived at our flat in Rustavi, tired but happy !

Perfect trip with perfect people !

Three monkeys on the road (Pauline, Albin and Emelie)

If you want the perfect reciepe to make a perfect trip, contact us ! (perfect.gye@gmail.com)

Yoann, your (perfect) apprentice journalist.

Hello Everybody!

As my EVS project here in Rustavi is almost over, I made a "sum-up" video with pictures and our favorite musics from parties time!

Hope you like it! 

See you soon, Marie.

Teo and Dato's Wedding

Last Saturday, the 3rd of September, we were invited to celebrate Love (with a BIG L!!) ! 

Our dear georgian teacher Teo, and her sweatheart (now husband!) Dato got married in Msreta and Tbilisi. It was a great sunny day, filled with a lot of joy!

 

The church ceremony was due at 3 in Msreta, the most religious town of the country. We met a dozen other couples who also came to get married, and some (stupid) tourists who prevented us from taking good pictures. 

It was Emelie and Albin's first experience of such a ceremony, the second time already for Marie, who could luckily explain most of things with help from mentor Giga, Liene and Lekso! Still, we don't really know why girls can't cross their legs when sitting in the church... Any ideas? 

Then we all moved to Tbilisi, "Muza" hotel for the signing ceremony at 5. They had hired a violonist and piano player, and the setting was really amazing (almost like in Madagoni, but far more beautiful).

This part was really short, but also sweet with Teo's Niece leading the way to the autel, and champagne to celebrate!

We took cars one more time for the most interesting part : the dinner! There we met even more guests, among them peace corps volunteers Gus and David. The restaurant was "Babylon" in Tbilisi. We had katchapuri, chicken salads, fish, coko, shashlik, white wine, fruits, and of course THE cake! It was really a good one, with cream and fruits inside and meringue on top... 

We were of course dancing to traditionnal dances, and disco dances in the middle of the restaurant, and uncle Gia was making toasts in between. It showed that Teo and Dato were quite anxious about the wedding dance but they did a very good job anyway! They came after to each table to thank the guests for coming, with glasses of cognac in their hands!

As for the present, we (volunteers) gave them a "romantic package' for their honeymoon in Spain... some wine, chocolate and red candles! I think they liked it! ;-)

Youth Exchange!!

THERE'S LIFE AFTER EVS

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Joe, Daga and Kalina came back to Georgia to be part of the youth exchange (end of july/ beginning august) they created while being evs. Here are some pictures!

More fun pics HERE and HERE and HERE.



EXTRA : (Tom during Advance planned visit)

News of our office !

The 18 / 07 /2011, our upstairs neighbor had forgotten to close his or her tap water. You can see the results in our office. I had cleaned the office just the day before......

With Emelie, Albin, Gus and Lekso we moved our office into the living room of our flat.

 Finally finished the work, we started to clean the office the first of August 2011 with Emelie and Albin.

We hope that this cleaning doesn't cause another disaster !

Yoann, your apprentice journalist.