Levon's Reflection
I am thankful for everything the Hidden Road has given me, and hope we can continue our vision of connecting Armenians from all over the world.
A few words about my experience in Akhpradzor:
An ancient quote says, “The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else”.
It is always right to share our knowledge with the others. Helping each other is the basis of humanism and contributes to global growth and development. It is still hard to believe that there are so many places in the world where people have no idea about modern technologies, and in fact, many of these places are in Armenia.
Going to Akhpradzor was a great experience and our stay there gave me new lessons. First of all, it was a great feeling that I was doing something really useful, making some kind of contribution to the people of that village. Their gratitude and their excitement about the computers was the greatest reward I received for my work there.
We spent three wonderful days with children, teaching them, playing and communicating with them. It is a very short period of time for making great changes, but actually we succeeded in giving at least elementary knowledge about information technologies to the children. It was difficult sometimes to decipher who was the student and who was the teacher. We taught these people what we knew, and in return, we also learned a lot from them. This optimistic attitude towards life in such tough conditions, along with the energy and the readiness to work, learn, and develop was inspiring.
Our main goal was to make something good and useful. I think we managed to change the world for the better starting from this little village that no one ever knew or cared about. We also learned how to work in a team, gathering information for one scope, sharing our knowledge with each other.
I will never forget the people of Akhpradzor and the time spent with them.
A few words about my experience in Akhpradzor:
An ancient quote says, “The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else”.
It is always right to share our knowledge with the others. Helping each other is the basis of humanism and contributes to global growth and development. It is still hard to believe that there are so many places in the world where people have no idea about modern technologies, and in fact, many of these places are in Armenia.
Going to Akhpradzor was a great experience and our stay there gave me new lessons. First of all, it was a great feeling that I was doing something really useful, making some kind of contribution to the people of that village. Their gratitude and their excitement about the computers was the greatest reward I received for my work there.
We spent three wonderful days with children, teaching them, playing and communicating with them. It is a very short period of time for making great changes, but actually we succeeded in giving at least elementary knowledge about information technologies to the children. It was difficult sometimes to decipher who was the student and who was the teacher. We taught these people what we knew, and in return, we also learned a lot from them. This optimistic attitude towards life in such tough conditions, along with the energy and the readiness to work, learn, and develop was inspiring.
Our main goal was to make something good and useful. I think we managed to change the world for the better starting from this little village that no one ever knew or cared about. We also learned how to work in a team, gathering information for one scope, sharing our knowledge with each other.
I will never forget the people of Akhpradzor and the time spent with them.
