Tebi Hayreneek

Andre Aharonian is a 2016 AYF Youth Corps participant

BY ANDRE AHARONIAN

After 22 hours, we finally arrived at Zvartnots airport. The feeling was surreal. I’d been talking about this trip for three months, and now I was finally in my homeland, ready to embark on this journey.

It all started when most of the Youth Corps group gathered at LAX, ready to fly a 15 hour flight to Qatar. Most of us, especially me, took this lightly, but this plane ride was one of the worst I had ever dealt with. Also, the fact that we were flying over Armenia to get to Qatar didn’t help.

Once we arrived in Qatar, we met up with an AYF member from East Coast and made some friends from AYF Australia who were also ready to embark on their own Youth Corps in a village called “Nor-Nork.”