Rush in Yerevan for Árpi’s money

Arpi — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:00:57 +0000

One day in Yerevan I received an sms. My mother sent it telling me to go to someplace where there is Internet access and start reading my emails.
To access my money from the reálhozam, I needed an authorization from the Hungarian ambassador in Yerevan. At the post office they did not accept the blanket authorization we left at home before embarking on our trip. I do not know what this “reálhozam” is, but the money it provides is enough for us for weeks.
Our next job was to find Aunt Ica. We needed her because, if we remembered correctly, the Hungarian ambassador in Yerevan did not speak Hungarian!
When we visited Aunt Ica a few days before, Laci took us to her place. Of course we observed everything but did not pay attention to how we were getting there.
Aunt Ica lives in a high-rise building, way up there; we took pictures from her balcony. On the basis of one photo, we found her place. She of course knew the ambassador and called him immediately. He was able to see us after 4:00 p.m.
We took a picture of the recipe for ”paprikás krumpli” (paprika-based potato stew) found in Aunt Ica’s recipe book.
We visited the Armenian Genocide Monument.
In a park we found a memorial tree planted by [representatives] a district from Budapest.
The ambassador is also an agent for the Gedeon Richter Plc., a pharmaceutical company; as it turned out, we met him in a pharmacy.
Ours was an exciting, action-packed day; we were given a task to tackle and successfully finish in an unknown and strange city. But we also had Laci and Aunt Ica to help. We are very grateful to them.

How can you get into „Good morning, Armenians!” programme of the ArmeniaTV?

Arpi — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:00:49 +0000

We met with the Hungarian family by caravan in Jerevan. (post: Soso and the Hungarian family travelling in a caravan) Nelli and her daughter, Diana, the Armenian hostesses gave a really delicious dinner for the gathered guests.

Nelli, the hostess commened us ti the „Good morning, Armenians!” (Bari Luys Hayastan) live programme of the ArmeniaTV.
We were invited to aunt Ica at the evening before the television programme.
Aunt Ica is a grandiose woman, who worked in the Soviet period by a company, which had plants in all Soviet states. She met the man who is her husband now in Armenia.
Aunt Ica cooked and baked lots of delicacies, when we were by her. There were chicken rissole with mashed potatoes, pancake and dumpling with plum.
Dumpling with plum is the favourite food of Zita.
In the morning, we arrived to the studio in time, we quickly got acquainted with the presenters then we pushed our bicycles to the studio. In fact it was fun to be on TV. After taking part in a live show I may not be so excited next time.
We downloaded the record from the archives of television of course, we cut out the newsreel, the commercials and the clips from it.

While we were on our way home we sew the beautiful double mountaintop of Ararat.

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Rush in Yerevan for Árpi’s money

How can you get into „Good morning, Armenians!” programme of the ArmeniaTV?