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    • Tatiks Know Best

    • Tatiks Know Best
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    • Two older women, called Tatik in Armenian, would be sitting along the road I took into town everyday. Without fail, I could expect a comment on what I was wearing, what I had bought from the store, or where I was headed so quickly. These women were...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bah Vonts Store

    • Bah Vonts Store
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    • Armen owns the store we foreigners like to call "Bah Vonts." Bah vonts in Armenian means "of course," and we call his store as such because anytime you ask if he has something in stock, he says "bah vonts," or something like "of course we have what...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Samvel, Always Up To Something

    • Samvel, Always Up To Something
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    • This hand gesture, accompanied with the sound "eeeeyaah," is one of the many things I have picked up in Armenia. I even find myself doing it to the ATM when it refuses to give me cash. I'm sure when I come back to America, this, along with many...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Peace Corps Home

    • My Peace Corps Home
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    • My house sits right in the part of town that the sun hits just before it tucks itself under the mountain for the evening. This time of year, as the light spills across my once abundant garden, over the yellow crunchy leaves and right through my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Comraderie

    • Comraderie
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    • One thing I loved about walking around in the streets in Armenia is that around any corner you could find a small group of men sitting around, smoking cigarettes, playing nardi and joking with each other.
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    • Women Baking Lavash

    • Women Baking Lavash
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    • My neighbors operate a lavash bakery and I often go there in the winter time to hang out because the ladies are always good for a fun conversation and it is nice and warm in there. The process is fascinating to watch, obviously these women have had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zoya's Sew Shop

    • Zoya's Sew Shop
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    • Zoya works in a small room just off the shortcut I take into town every day. She says she learned how to sew when she was 17 at classes she took at the cultural house in Yeghegnadzor over 30 years ago. She along with her soviet era sewing machine...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old Shuka at Night

    • Old Shuka at Night
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    • Meag, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Armenia walks past the outdoor market in Yeghegnador, Armenia. Several months after this photo was taken, the Soviet era building was torn down to make room for modern shops.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Danny and Lydia

    • Danny and Lydia
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    • Danny Lovell lived with Lydia for his entire two year service in Armenia. In the beginning, Lydia's family lived in the home as well, but they eventually moved to Germany. Danny and Lydia lived alone together for the majority of the two years....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lydia

    • Lydia
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    • Lydia is the host mother of Armenia Peace Corps Volunteer, Danny Lovell. Lydia is originally from Ukraine, but moved to Armenia when she married and Armenian man in Russia. She learned to speak Armenian in Armenia when she moved there days after...
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    • Vartan

    • Vartan
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    • Vartan pauses during his description of a protest he coordinated. Vartan has always been an advocate for Armenia's environment, so when he heard plans of a new water diversion system, Vartan organized a protest of nearly 1,000 people. They blocked...
    • Volunteer Photos

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