Ringing in Reality: "Last Bell" isn't what it used

[anileve]

lol, this is why I was reluctant to share my age with you people.

But honestly, do you consider a MOVE to Armenia? Or just a visit?

Baronchik, I didn’t mean to make you feel uncomfortable. It’s hard to contain myself since you are 2 years younger than my brother, and so terribly smart. I miss those days when he was as sensible as you are, and I would have liked to pinch his cheeks too, but he’s 6’ and one hell of a stubborn ass.

As for my move to Armenia, I doubt it. It’s recently that I am experiencing feelings of nostalgia; I want to pay Yerevan a visit, just to see what has changed. As for living there…there are many factors as to why I wouldn’t. And most of all it’s that there is nothing there for me. My family is untraditionally tiny and they are all here, I’ve lost touch with my friends and we are in distant relations with our relatives. Just to name a few reasons.

[Artsakhtsi]

Remember those little brown uniforms with little white aprons we used to wear to school and how girls in miniskirts were considered loose? Or the memorable phase when boys used to glue mirrors to the top of their shoes and walk up to girls and suavely place their feet between theirs? I figured out that trick immediately, so whenever a boy would attempt to apply the same trick on me, he would be blessed with a powerful slap in the face. And the funny thing is that they took it, laughed and never returned a favor. And what about the Women’s day March 8 (I think), when the teacher would organize for girls to leave the classroom and when we would return there would be little bouquets of forget-me-nots on every girls desk. Or when they used to carry our books or help us putting on our jackets?


Ow,,,, i almost forgot this things...... *brown uniforms* .... eh... realy girl, it was a nice time then......
Women's day.....getting flowers from the boys(funny days)... well... keep dreaming...... specially here in Sweden....where women are extream feminists... i mean they lost any feminity.... So here, u do not feel special..... if u know what i mean girls

Any way, thanx for reminding me this days


p.s. .... i'm shoked about this crazyness in Yerevan .....

[anileve]

Hey Artsakhtsi,

I’ve been meaning to “hey” you, but you were so passionately involved in an, excuse me for saying this but, “overly exhausted” subject of Genocide, that I decided to let you pour it all out and then greet you.

Inch lava vor du Hayastanitses, many memories to reminisce about. I do have to make a comment for a future reference, I am one hella ofa feminist and yet nonetheless feminine and like my coat to be held by a man, so please refrain from using “feminist” as a derogatory term.

I did hear that Sweden has some serious feminists, however the liberal and uninhibited nature doesn’t only apply to women, and men have developed a similar liberal way of thinking as well. Also from certain sources confirm that relationships and commitments are not usually on their list of priorities and they thrive on exercising unattached relations. Would you agree?

Well, feel free to contribute to our memory lane, I am getting swept away by nostalgia. Tell us some about some other good stuff from the past.

[Artsakhtsi]

Hey Artsakhtsi,

I’ve been meaning to “hey” you, but you were so passionately involved in an, excuse me for saying this but, “overly exhausted” subject of Genocide, that I decided to let you pour it all out and then greet you.

Inch lava vor du Hayastanitses, many memories to reminisce about. I do have to make a comment for a future reference, I am one hella ofa feminist and yet nonetheless feminine and like my coat to be held by a man, so please refrain from using “feminist” as a derogatory term.

I did hear that Sweden has some serious feminists, however the liberal and uninhibited nature doesn’t only apply to women, and men have developed a similar liberal way of thinking as well. Also from certain sources confirm that relationships and commitments are not usually on their list of priorities and they thrive on exercising unattached relations. Would you agree?

Well, feel free to contribute to our memory lane, I am getting swept away by nostalgia. Tell us some about some other good stuff from the past.

Barev Anileve! 8)

Vontses? Es Artsakhits em, tsnvel em Stepanakert....

Gites, es haskanoum em inchou es tents asoum “overly exhausted”, bajts vor imatsa et ahchike turkha.... chem karetsel sus mnam..., unfortunatly im anglerenes lav chi, dra hamar chem karoum normal knnarkel ira het... , hamel es nor masnakits em stegh.. dra hamar petka eghel to pool it out of me ..... hima mikhich hangist em hehe....

ABout feminists in Sweden, don't know much about it, but they are fighting, u see we have a problem here - like man and women r doing the same job, but man gets a bigger salary...So it's a biggest priority here for women to change this stupid system!

Hm, u have a good sources girl ... swedish ppl do not like to merry, they like "grazhdnskij brak" haskatsa? :?: it's a popular thing here....

Memory? hm.... my first Pepsi Cola hahah,,,ow.... we where lil kids ( me and my sis) and my dad, where on the trip in Moscow, so he bring our first Pepsi and bananas from there, damn ... i was so happy the taste of of my first Pepsi..will stay with me forever...... however... i hate bananas now

Hajogh girl !

[Artsakhtsi]

Oh oh oh, remember “ISAURA”, I used to think she’s the loveliest, smartest and strongest woman I have ever seen. :shock:

U r killing me girl, it's jsut too much...STOP

[TJ]

anileve and ssflames i seriously started crying when i read your posts. i lived in vanadzor and came to the US pretty young (7) in 1995 but i remember everything and i really do think that the best times of my life were in Armenia even though we only had makaron kartoshka and hats to eat for a couple of days and people used to rip the wood off the benches in the park for heat but it was so nice. i remember that our hayat was surrounded by apartments on one side and garages on the other but nice little unique garages, and the garages had their backs to this old ladies house and she had 20 cats and 2 dogs and we would climb on top of the garage and pick the apples off of her tree that was right there and eat apples on top of the garage and then we used to go steal sand from the construction crews and use it to make a sandbox to play with our toy cars. I remember going to get bread from the store and eating half of the loaf on the way back and man do i miss ARMENIA. I rememeber going to my friends house on sundays because they had a battery television and we would watch a disney movie they showed once a week. there were lights for like 2 hours a day but it was the best. i dont know why i came to this xxxxhole country america.i want to cry.i want to go back but i dont have a greencard i will be getting by card in february but i will be 16 and if i go then i will be forced to stay for military draft and my parents wont allow that. AW man vay vay HAYASTAN JAN.

[Anonymouse]

Screw the last bell.

Although I didn't go to school in Armenia, my parents would always tell me about it.

It's amazing how much material culture has replaced humanity.

It's like L.A.

I hate this xxxxhole.

[ckBejug]

why does reminiscing about things have to be so sad?

in my entire life, i have been to armenia all of twelve days, and they were the twelve most incredible days i have experienced in the 21 years i have been alive. and that's God's honest truth. Nothing i have ever done compares to that in any way, and I don't think anything ever will equal it's awesomeness. after having gone to armenian schools my entire life and learning about this place that has had such a sad and tumultuous yet glorious and incredible past, Gosh I can't even describe how i felt AT HOME all of a sudden. This place was MINE, my people. Even now I can't put it into words. It was incredible. 37 people we stepped off the plane and took one look around and seriously breathed a sigh like all together. I xxxx you not. I didn't want to leave.

I still remember when I was a kid in AYF and we had these tramahavaks to raise money because people in Armenia had it so bad they had to burn whatever they could get their hands on just for heat. it made me SO sad. I remember asking my mom why we couldn't just give some of our heat and blankets because we really didn't need it so bad. And now, to hear how you guys lived through those times and still came out with these beautiful memories of a life you loved, damn, seriously, can i say how much i LOVE being armenian??

i want to go back soon. very very very soon. I say we take a group trip.

as for reminiscing about growing up there, well that's one thing I can't do. Where is anyone who will reminisce with me about going to Mekhitarian and growing up and going to AYF on fridays and scouts in Glendale after which we had Kebab, EVERY SUNDAY?? Who gives a crap about these stoopid dirty streets in LA, i wish i grew up somewhere that pulled at my heartstrings every time i thought about it :-/ If anything, i want to give my children the chance to grow up in that kind of environment. I used to sit at the AYF meetings and wonder why we couldn't all just pick up a gun and shoot those stupid turks for making us live now so far away from our homeland, in addition to the etc horrible things they did. I was about 8-9-10 years old then. Now i know it's not so easy, and although it may not happen in this lifetime, i do dream of a time when I can move back to Armenia and live where my ancestors lived. It's just this feeling of owning a place. not in the stupid monetary sense of the word. in a different way i can't explain.

well that was quite a spilling of my guts. i was listening to enya and thinking about days past. excuse my mushyness