I just bought my ticket for Yerevan. The young travel agent all the way out in Glendale didn't react at all to my one way request. I take this as a good sign that there are many more one way requests and he is used to it by now. I move back to Yerevan in T minus 25 days. The last time I was in Armenia was 1999 after a 6 month stay in Armenia running the Land and Culture. I will now return to Yerevan once again with a different purpose (details to be dispersed as they are acquired)...
I wanted to say hi to the contributors and those who read every day (like me) and introduce myself. My name is Madlene Minassian. A parska-hye raised in Studio City, California I began trips to Armenia at 18 with the Land and Culture Organization. After studying Sociology and Armenian Studies at UCLA I moved to NYC to run the AGBU New York Summer Intern Program. It has been a year and a half in this city that never sleeps... and it has been an amazing experience. I have covered it all and would suggest Sylvia's Soul Kitchen for great food in Harlem and following the DJ Junior Vasquez for a good club night. But of course and it was and is inevitable, I have an almost fatal case of the Armenia Bug, the one that creeps in you and makes you want to be there... and so I am taking the Brooklyn Bridge over to JFK and am off.
Since I found out I am returning I have been daydreaming constantly. I am too excited to move back and so excited to meet all of you and have a nice evening eating semechka and taking a walk in gendron. I am also dead set on doing some fabulous things like going into the mountains with the hovivs for a few days or walking around Lake Sevan.
Another Armenian-American might be moving with me... but will keep it on the downlow for now. Hopefully there will be so many 21'st Century Hayrenadarts kids that we can turn this into the largest mass migration to Armenia. For the next 25 days I will just prep. and dream and of course gloat... I AM MOVING TO HAYASTAN!!!
I wanted to say hi to the contributors and those who read every day (like me) and introduce myself. My name is Madlene Minassian. A parska-hye raised in Studio City, California I began trips to Armenia at 18 with the Land and Culture Organization. After studying Sociology and Armenian Studies at UCLA I moved to NYC to run the AGBU New York Summer Intern Program. It has been a year and a half in this city that never sleeps... and it has been an amazing experience. I have covered it all and would suggest Sylvia's Soul Kitchen for great food in Harlem and following the DJ Junior Vasquez for a good club night. But of course and it was and is inevitable, I have an almost fatal case of the Armenia Bug, the one that creeps in you and makes you want to be there... and so I am taking the Brooklyn Bridge over to JFK and am off.
Since I found out I am returning I have been daydreaming constantly. I am too excited to move back and so excited to meet all of you and have a nice evening eating semechka and taking a walk in gendron. I am also dead set on doing some fabulous things like going into the mountains with the hovivs for a few days or walking around Lake Sevan.
Another Armenian-American might be moving with me... but will keep it on the downlow for now. Hopefully there will be so many 21'st Century Hayrenadarts kids that we can turn this into the largest mass migration to Armenia. For the next 25 days I will just prep. and dream and of course gloat... I AM MOVING TO HAYASTAN!!!
posted by Madlene at 11:06 PM
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