Last day in office

Today is my last working day in this office, in Yerevan, in Armenia. I have been working here for 1 year and 7 months. Such a strange feeling it is leaving the place where you have been spending most of your time without noticing how attached you have become to every detail surrounding you. One more hour and these all will not be a part of my life any more.

Last 2-3 months went in a crazy way. I was involved in preparations of my wedding and all other things following the wedding and my grand move to other country that I didn't have time to think of what I would feel while leaving everything and everyone. Admittedly I was avoiding  thoughts about it...
However everything has its beginning and its end as  there's no construction without destruction. And it's more than obvious in my case that for the beginning of my new life I need to say by the old one.
I am starting that long and painful process, lasting less than one month, today, right now and I must say that will be tough to pass through...

My Armenia

This is my Armenia. Although it may look small on the map but a great nation lives here - Armenians. We call ourselves Hay [hai] and our land Hayastan. Nowadays Armenia is situated in a small part of the highland called Armenian highland main part of which is now in the territory of Turkey.

Map of the Republic of Armenia

Our language is Armenian- one of the oldest Indo-European languages of the world. Our alphabet is unique. You can never see any letters like this in any language. The alphabet was created by Saint Mesrop Mashtots in 405 AD.

Armenian alphabet

The first sentence in Armenian written down by St. Mesrop after he invented the letters is said to be the opening line of Solomon’s Book of Proverbs:

	Ճանաչել զիմաստութիւն եւ զխրատ, իմանալ զբանս հանճարոյ: «To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding.»
—Book of Proverbs, 1:2.