Today was School Visit Day at the GCNF. I traveled with participants to the village of Vedi, where the school director had arranged for us to watch- and even 'help'- the school children plant peach trees which, in years to come, would augment the school meals served to students there.
The day was so typically Armenian that I felt like all the participants finally got a view of the 'real' Armenia outside of the capital city. We were greeted with a song and dance processional:
This children were all still wearing their First Bell Ceremony Black-and-Whites (fancy clothes, usually reserved for the first few weeks of the school year), but that didn't stop all the boys from lining up in the field to plan these peach trees.
I'm not sure how much actual help we were...
But in the end, one way or another, the peach trees got planted.
Afterwards, we were treated to a tour of the school's cafeteria facilities:
We got to see the students eating their lunches- and were even treated to a school meal ourselves.
The kitchen facilities were gorgeous- I need to find out how to help School #4 get a kitchen space like this.
No comments:
Post a Comment