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    • Armenian Hospitality

    • Armenian Hospitality

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Food and meals

    • Armenians are known for being incredibly hospitable. You can always expect to be invited in for a coffee and candy.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Armenian Traffic Jam

    • Armenian Traffic Jam

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress; Animals

    • A typical scene just around sunset in Armenia, the village cows come back to their barns from a day out in the pasture.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bah Vonts Store

    • Bah Vonts Store

    • Markets; host community

    • 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
    • Bringing the Cows Home

    • Bringing the Cows Home

    • Animals; Culture shock and adaptation; Site orientation

    • This scene happens every day just as the sun is tucking itself to sleep behind the mountain in Yeghegnadzor. The cows that have spent the day up in the mountains or down in the river valley grazing for the day then head back home to be milked. I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Comraderie

    • Comraderie

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Danny and Lydia

    • Danny and Lydia

    • Host families; housing; Volunteers

    • 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

    • Host families; housing; traditional dress

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Peace Corps Home

    • My Peace Corps Home

    • Housing; Terrain

    • 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
    • Norik

    • Norik

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress

    • Norik is a German teacher in the village Hermon in Armenia. He also owns a store.
    • Volunteer Photos

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