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  • Typical Armenian home life?

    Ok, any of you either live with your family or when you go back to Yerevan know what it feels like to live in a typical Armenian home? I don't, but I am busy working on something that requires some background info about this.

    What is typical about an Armenian home? When you walk in after a hard day at work, what do you expect to see? What kind of music, what is your mom/dad doing?

    If I could get some details I would be much obliged, thanks.

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    The only thing that I can think of and that has come up with many of my Armenian friends is the "fruit eating" tradition. lol, I don't know if this sounds familiar to any of you, but on most nights, my dad will peel a ton of fruits and expect us to all gather around and eat them.

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    • #3
      My mom makes me dinner, and my dad has not yet come home from work.

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      • #4
        My mom says, put something on, my grandma says, what are you doing? My dad works. My sisters do hw. I play games.

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        • #5
          coffee or tea, and yes i know about the fruit eating...

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          • #6
            Hell yeah. theres always a big bowl of fruits in the living room and no matter what im doing i always have to be on guard for my mom or grandma to randomly pop in with a big plate of peeled fruits insisting that i finish it.
            Other than that my parents drink a crapload of coffee and always have some friends over with whom they drink more coffee or tea, also wine is a big hit nowadays, we consume about a bottle every 2 days. My parents stay up into very late hours in the living room watching russian tv and occasionally Armenian dvds. oh and lots of talkin on the phone.

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            • #7
              Coffee is definitely an important part.

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              • #8
                YES! Fruits!! lol How funny. It used to be a lot more common when we were younger. But just 2 weeks ago my mom opened my bedroom door while I was studying to hand me a plate of apples, pears, oranges, bananas - all peeled and sliced. "Kidem hos veruh nsder es anoti-anoti...haydeh, nsdir verchatsoor asi."

                It's not coffee -it's SOORJ! Or in my dad's case, ahweh. But never coffee.

                My mom usually has food prepared when I come home. She'll be watching TV with soorj & cigarettes, or sometimes she'll have a friend or a sister over, or sometimes she'll be out.

                My dad will play solitaire on the computer. Or he'll be in the garage working on one of his many projects. Or he'll be watching TV with my mom in the living room.

                We never really have music playing. But my parents watch a lot of satellite TV from Arab countries. I suspect this is the same for many Middle East Armenians, but perhaps more so in my case.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Baron Dants
                  The only thing that I can think of and that has come up with many of my Armenian friends is the "fruit eating" tradition. lol, I don't know if this sounds familiar to any of you, but on most nights, my dad will peel a ton of fruits and expect us to all gather around and eat them.
                  OMG yea!! my dad does that after dinner- like a few huors later- or we gather round the shimishka.. or semooshka-- sorry im lenakantsi- we call it shimishka ... lol yea and and and... the coffee after dinner

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                  • #10
                    heres what its like for me- i get home from work... late.... my mom gets mad at me caue i havent eaten anything the whole day- and she angirly opens the refridgerator door and starts putting all this stuff in front of me without even asking... lol then my dad starts annoying my mom and doing silly things and making jokes- then i never get food aue theyre joking around and then arguing-- so i fall asleep-

                    but usually its lke this- i get home from school (right nowi dont ahve schoool) i fall asleep- wake up study- or go to borders/ library and study... come home.. eat fruits... skip dinner.... and then sit down with my parents and watch law and order...or CSI.... or ER if its thursday night.... and if i get lucky and have a chance to go to the gym i get home and take a shower and repeat the second and third steps... lol
                    and if im uckier and im to tired- ill get a chance to catch a glipmse of my o su busy brother- and my dad before he runs to starbucks to get coffee.. and when he coems back im already knocked out and ready to wake p at 4am to drve to school...

                    wow i msis those....

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