Diaries 2005

EXPECTATION
1) i met very interesting turkish young people, to learn more about their view of armenians &”armenian question”. At the end of the meeting i should be able to appraise how much of what we have been told about Turkish is Wright & wrong. Though i had a smaller chance to do above mention-ed before :)

2) I hope to be able to present Armenian side as representatively/objectively as possible. İ want to be able to successfully challenge turkish’ view of Armenians!

3) If it all works out we should be able to come up with comprehensive handbook of “freshmans in Armenian –Turkish reltaions” that will list moral/ethical may be financial/cultural and other reasons for Armenian-Turkish reconciliationprocess to move on. I strongly hope that this piece of paper will be different from usual Works produced by majority of summer schools involving young people.

In my opininoon good paper must:
Be short Understandable

MAKE SENSE
Dont think that i am serious enough not to mention fun, swimming, booze&shopping :)

10.08.05

12:30 flight to İstanbul. Russians from siberia transit yervan for İstanbul, they drunk all of are cognac.
12:30 (turkish time this time) Armenia is not listed in visa countries in airport.
1:30 am: Ist: F1 here? On this roads?
2:00 am am Bilgi university. Dorm-nice. They think we are Irish or maybe whatever,
2:30 am what is the YTL/USD converstaioon rate????
2:45 am i want to mommy.
3:00 am open up the fridge its too hot here.
3:45 am it is
5:45 am in yerevan so mommy is sleeping.
8:00 am quick tour of İstanbul, they sold me an invalid phone card.
10:00 am deadline is here, organizer are NOT!
10:08 am what is the YTL/US rate.
11:00 - 12:00: small road in Istanbuul can be REALLY STEEP!
12:00 nice Office. Can i call my mommy.
13:00 istanbul is big and bit like moscow in sleeping areas.
16:30 am turkish airway has top air standarts yet the worst lunch in the whole world.
19:00 who said adana Antakya takes 1 h.?
19.01 finally! We know the YTL/US rate AAAAaaaaa!!! İstanbul was not very expensive! BUS: disrupted voice, catterbox. Armenian females, frankly turkish sing way better.
Antakya: bone appetite.

11.08.05

Mehmet Ali ( mali aka-Nigeria)
Demonstrated his ağabeylity trading down the disco entrance fee. .Even this positive feed wasn’t able to relieve his grief of seperation from his sweetheart. 2 portakolos with vodka, sweethearts mobile ghost is stil haunting our hero abusing Turkcell SMS capacities BUT NO Armenians don’t believe him, his diagnosis was ready be documented as orotomani schizofrenia involving obscenities&pathologic friendliness to another armenian patient from the same ward call G. Sedrak (aka his assnes)
Contest
Part animal #1 Gayush was leading chart, but the only mus take was crucial she shouldnt have said she wants home& first prize goes to unknown soldier who sacrifices his life burning the disco spot down. I cant teach Armenian –Turkish simutaneously, so plug up our ears i am gonna talk about smt. Really boring..but i was silent.
Ali Ayun has the biggest contribution keeping guys around the discussion table. C2 I aint no hollaback girl, hollaback girl.

15.08.05

Finally! Lessons of Turkish and which is no less interesting / undertaining Armanian lessons for Turkish.
Shawel – though we know part of the members from the game called Nordi. We still lost the game. And then the song - I wish we could do those language lessons all they ....... then this trip to Vakıfeli Köyü lots of Armenians. Chorovats smell ( park prepared on fire ).
Communication thirsty Armenians. Dances, overashelmet participants and guess what – they didn’t manage to ...... ...... and that know the Armenian rhythims. And duduk players.
From..... meeting Turkish participants of our summer school was way more intersting than that Armenian Village.
Guitar..... my favourite band is extremely marginal movement in Arm. Yet Turkish guys are all ....... of it strongly. When I play my favourite songs from my ....... band among Turkish friend, ı feel like we belong to the same nation.

16.08.05

Big time experiance – sand castle build ...... Kurd akhper stood there proudly until dumsy Armenian woman stepped on ... and then sat on it accidentally. Harisa – the only difference between Harisa in Armenia and in Turkey, except that of course Arm one is tastier , is that we have always abundancy of harisa when we prepare it.
Oooouuuh, I have to tell you about this Turkish woman won’t let you pay for them ...... in ice – cream. ........ .... get ..... with it. They will 100% ...........
Frankly, we have had too much künefe, I think from ......... on we should ....... calories. And we’re getting to my favourite part. Conversation out of summer school frames, where we get much bigger perspective and more knowledge about each other.

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The Consortium partners include Civilitas Foundation (CF), Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), Public Journalism Club (PJC), Regional Studies Center (RSC) from Armenia; and Anadolu Kültür, the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV), Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (hCa), and Hrant Dink Foundation from Turkey.  The programme will include a series of activities such as media support, TV talk shows and citizen reporting to contribute to better mutual understanding.

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