Epilogue

I slept on the flight to Warsaw, but it wasn't too long.
We had breakfast in Warsaw and killed the time with reading or walking around.
The flight to Budapest was very short and I also slept. The Polish airlines' handrails were extremely uncomfortable, I don't recommend it to anyone. I won't fly with them anymore if I can.
After arriving home, I ate, unpacked the bag and went to sleep. I slept more than 12 hours until today morning.

To sum up the trip, I can say that it was amazing and thanks for everyone who made it possible.

Glass market and dancing fountains

Today we had no plan but to visit lake Sevan. We went there by bus, went through a souvenir market, where all the sellers had the same goods, specially coloured glass. It was quite expensive.
We were on a peninsula, with a little hill. On top of it we took a lot of photos. The view was great.

Originally we would visit the oldest church of Armenia, but someone who decides things was afraid of a bit of rain. We visited a fully new one instead, it wasn't that interesting.

After lunch we went to the city to play borwling. I left my phone on the bus, but the bus driver found it. I got it back thanks to Silva, because she made some phone calls and we went to the bus station by cab and took the phone. The cab was dirt cheap and we even got to the bowling place before it started.
We had a great time there.

Then we went to have dinner, we had hamburger in a nice fast food restaurant. The Saudi Arabian team explained a lot about their culture and habits, I was really amazed.

After that, we visited the Republic Square, where the fountains were dancing for classical music.

Finally the farewell from Silva was sad, we are really glad that she was our guide, she organised a lot of programs for us besides the originals and we had a lot of fun together.

Now we are sitting in the Yerevan airport and waiting for the departure. Good that they have WiFi. We will have 5 hours in Warsaw before going to Budapest.

Closing ceremony and results

Today morning we visited a souvenir market and had lunch in Yerevan tavern.
After lunch we suited up and went to the closing ceremony. Firstly we heared speeches in Russian than they started to read the names,starting with the last one.
We got two bronze (one of them is mine) and a silver medal.

Sightseeing trip in the mountains

Today we had the second theoretical exam, where were three tasks in each five sections and we had to choose one from each. It was extremely hard, much harder than the first one for me.

In the afternoon we visited two places in the mountains, near the city: Garni and Geghard.

Garni is an ancient roman building, with a great view of a valley and the mountain on the other side.
We took a photo all together here.

Geghard is a monastery partly carved in the mountain. Two interesting things were around it: holes in the wall, where (as they say) if you throw a rock while wishing something and it stays up there, it comes true. Funny thing is, that most people can't do it and their wish will be to make one stone stay up there. The other one is a place where people build stone towers of of flat stones. It was fun to try it.

In front of these places merchants tried to sell us souvenirs and special food. They made us try some flat dried fruit, it really teasted like the bottom of my shoes. We bought a huge cake-like thing, that can be kept for a long time, we quite like it.

(written at 6th, but I reached the Internet just now)

Candy shopping

Today we had the lab exam, it wasn't hard, we only had weird pipette balls and burettes.

After lunch, we visited a candy shop, where everything was dirt cheap. I bought some candy and tried their donuts. It was tasty.

Now we are going to the arbitration and will see the results of the theoretical exams.

First theoretical exam

Today we took the first theoretical exam, which consisted of 8 problems and we had 5 hours for it. After it we had lunch and went in city centre. The weather was mostly sunny, but it rained a bit. We went through things we saw on Sunday but saw a lot of new as well. For example we went into several shops, including souvenir shops and a supermarket, where I bought chocolate for tomorrow's exam.
Finally we visited a pizzeria, where all the 13 of us ate enough pizza for about 12000 AMD.
On The way back from there, we took a little bus, which was half full and most of us had to stand and we felt like a bunch of fish in a shop's aquarium.
And they took our Internet until the end of tomorrow's exam. :(

And finally a funny observation about the country : they have no pissoires, or at least I haven't seen any in public toilets.

Trip to Tsitsernakaberd

After playing bridge with the Saudi Arabians and our guide, Silva (on the photo), we decided to visit Tsitsernakaberd. It's the memorial for Armenian Genocide. (Long story short, as they explained: millions on Armenian people were butchered in 1915 by invaders and they took more than half of the country's land, which belongs now to Turkey.)

We all put flowers there

The two sword-like things symbolise the two mountains, that belonged to Armenia before.

Opening ceremony

A I expected a boring opening ceremony, but it turned out to be interesting. They went through the teams, we saw pictures of the countries and videos of their folk dances. From Hungary, they showed pictures of Budapest and a short video of csárdás dance.
Than some students of the university performed songs.

After that we went to a museum, where manuscripts are stored and displayed.

On the way back from there, a police car made our bus the way. We even run red lights. We could go pretty fast like that.

Whatever

This morning we wanted to get up at 8, because the breakfast was until 9. Unfortunately they wanted to wake us up long before 8, to hurry up. Well, we are sitting in the room now, doing nothing planned. And the opening ceremony begins at 11, but most things happen later here than planned.

We got some yogurt-like thing extra. Originally it was sour and unpleasant, but with a little sugar it turned out to be very tasty.

There's a hi-tech fountain near the dormitory, made of a sprinkler. It's fully the same sprinkler as ours at home.

Programme of the week

Here is the programme we received today.

In addition we got t-shirts and bags at the registration. The t-shirts are comfortable, but the bags are useles.  

Round-trip in Yerevan

We made today a round-trip in the city with the guides. We walked a lot and saw a lot.

Firstly we visited a huge statue. It's one of their symbols, a woman with a sword and a torch.

In front of the statue, we had a wonderful view of the city and the Ararat. 

We tried to take a group photo with the Ararat, that's how it worked out :

Then we went to another monument: a large pillar with a golden feather on top. In front of it, we saw a large construction site which was abandoned for several years. 

After leaving this, going forward, we arrived at the modern arts' exhibition. This was particularly interesting, because there's a long stairway down the hill, full of the artworks. Even under the stairway, you can go up and down on moving stairways, surrounded by artworks. It was amazing, although some of the pieces were strange and I didn't consider all of them pieces of art. 

And my favourite :

Than we went all the way down and took a group photo with a statue. In my opinion, this statue could make a perfect inquisitor, if it was painted red... :) ( it really is the architect, who planned the place) 

Finally, we went to the restaurant and ate a great lunch. I already posted that wonderful meal. 

Armenian restaurant

We just had lunch in a traditional Armenian restaurant. It was just amazing. They ordered different dishes and we ate them together with the Bulgarian team.
We tried three interesting drinks:
1. Some fermented milk, which was salty
2. A sea Buckhorn-juice (homoktövis)
3. Some soft drink with tarragon... This one was green :)

They had a beef BBQ dish, we really liked it. The other favourite was pork with rice, covered with vine leaves.

Arrival and accommodation

The flight to Yerevan was great, I could have used some more food.
We landed after 3 am.
After the landing our passports were checked, and we collected the luggage. We didn't know if they were going to wait for us there or not. Fortunately they did, and took us to the dormitory. On the way I noticed two interesting things: we saw dozens of fancy furniture stores and a gas station, where the gas costs about 450 AMD (1 USD = 476 AMD).

We have a four star hotel, one for each of us in the room... It's really a secondary school's dormitory. It's good, not like a hotel, but we shouldn't complain at all.

We went to sleep about at 5 am and we had breakfast at 9 am.
After the breakfast they told us to wait for the registration.

Now we wait.

Vienna

Just arrivedived in Vienna. The flight was quite short, like half an hour, I haven't really had the time to drink my tea. However, I had a window seat and I saw a lot. I saw Budapest, as always, the upper part of the river Danube and the Lake  Nousiedel (Fertő-tó) surrounded by swamps. I took a picture of that.

At the airport, we had to move to the non shengen lounge. Most interesting part is the free WiFi and the bed-like things with pillows and blankets. They're very comfortable, I think I could fall asleep on them.

We have 2 hours until the flight to Yerevan. Hopefully they will have good food for us on the airplane.