http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Katie K/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Katie K en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:47:35 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:47:35 BST Today is our last day of the Global Village trip and a great had been planned for us. Melik David and Ani picked us up to take us to the Holy See Edminjistan. Being that it was Sunday both churches we visited had masses in seesion it was a great experience to see how the traditional Armenian masses were held as well as seeing the historic churches. It was very beautiful and Ani and David did http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/West/Yerevan/blog-203106.html Maliek Gohar and David a HFH Armenia volunteer who is Armenian grew up in Jordan but lives in Yerevan as he is going to the university to be a dentist picked us up from the hotel to take us to our last day on the worksite. Since we finished moving the lava rock to the attic yesterday our task today was to do some landscaping leveling the front and backyard filling with dirt then covering http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/West/Yerevan/blog-202415.html Today we headed straight to the worksite and started the highly anticipated bucket brigade Our task for the day was to carry buckets of the lava rock up to the attic and to bring enough rocks up to form a 56 layer across the entire attic floor. This was a nice break from plastering and painting and gave the team a different experience. Gohar also explained that by our team helping move the l http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/West/Yerevan/blog-202168.html Before we started work today Gohar Meri and Maliek took our team to visit some of the families who are in their homes including 2 families that were supported by Habitat Detroit and Masco. It was an absolutely amazing experience. One of the homes we saw that was sponsored by HFHD and Masco was a beautiful home and an experience I will never forget. The family has 3 children 2 girls and a boy http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/West/Yerevan/blog-201882.html This morning we traveled to beautiful Lake Sevan about a 45 minutes from Yerevan with Maliek and Ani. As we were driving Ani was telling us many great stories about the Armenian culture as well as tales about Lake Sevan. Lake Sevan is the biggest lake in Armenia and has many vacation homes. Two churches from 900 BC sit atop a hill that is surrounded by the lake we parked the minibus and climbe http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/West/Yerevan/blog-201874.html Gohar Maliek and Lilita HFH Armenia staff corporate donors picked up our team at the hotel to take us to Hamlet and Amalik's house to do more work. After instruction we continued on with plastering finising both bedrooms and working on the main room. With the practice from yesterday and new tips from Hacob and Maliek our team felt much more confident doing the plastering work Timing was http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/blog-201302.html Sept 9th After over 24 hours of travel with a 9 hour layover in Frankfurt which turned out to be wonderful break as we were able to leave the airport and take the Bahn to Maktplaz for a nice walk in the marketplace and lunch at a cafe the team arrived safely to YerevanOur team was warmly greeted by Gohar HFH Yervan staffGlobal trip coordinator and Maliek HFH Yerevan staffdriver and constr http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Armenia/blog-200747.html