Volunteer in Armenia Continued…

Sanne, an EVS volunteer who recently came to Armenia for six months, has written a post about her experience as a volunteer in Armenia.  

She writes: 

So, with a complete blank mind, some expectations, a bit of knowledge from the travelguide I had been reading, Marieke and I arrived at Zvartnots Yerevan Airport: Armenia. What was to be expected?

I can’t really call it a ‘great shock’, because you are prepared in a way, but arriving in a country where you can’t read the signs (Armenian has a unique and quite difficult alphabet), don’t understand what the people are saying (most of them don’t speak English), where you don’t know anyone and everything looks like a documentary one sometimes sees about former soviet countries, or even war-zones like former Yugoslavia, I can say that at the moment of arrival I thought it a big challenge to stay there for the coming 6 months. This length of time felt an enourmous amount of time and made me panic a bit.
Now being back I can say my time in Armenia was over too soon and it is funny to overthink my reaction at that time with the knowledge I now have about Armenia and Armenians. Or at least my experience with it.

She describes her observations about Armenia and is an interesting detailed account of her emotions and first thoughts about arriving in Armenia.