Second Year University 2017
First Place: Syuzanna Shahnazaryan, Ijevan
You and your three closest friends decide to go camping. You arrive and set up camp nearly three miles away from where you left your car. Late that evening, as you sit around the campfire roasting marshmallows, one of your friends reveals a deep dark secret that turns what was to be a fun weekend into one of the scariest weekends of your life.
Friendship is like a ray of the sun, it enlightens your life, when your friends are with you and your life seems dark and dull when that ray of the sun disappears.
Generally, my best friends take a very important role in my life. They are my inspiration, the engine which leads me to new adventures, fantastic and magnificent places. Usually, travelling and camping make friends closer, make people understand one another better, find more colorful lines in life.
Taking into consideration this thought we decided to go camping together.
At first, it was very difficult for us to choose a suitable place to camp, as we needed an adventurous place to stay. Finally we found a fantastic place to camp, just it was three miles away from the place where our car could be left. We had taken many tasty dishes with us. One of our friends had taken marshmallows. All of us like marshmallows without roasting. Only one of our friends, Nancy, likes them roasted on the fire. How much we persuaded her not to roast them, in any case, she decided to prepare a “tasty dish”.
The evening was deepening, and the atmosphere was becoming more and more fascinating. We all were tired, but for Nancy. We went to our tents and decided to have a rest a little. Only Nancy was sitting next to the fire and preparing her favorite marshmallows. The smell of marshmallows was pretty nice. This was the first time she was preparing. But then, a flash of light appeared near the tents. We all were terrified. What was happening there? Nobody could say. And then we hearn an unusual voice: “I am here to make your dreams come true. Ha ha ha”.
At first it seemed like a dream. Then we all went out to see where Nancy is. She was standing near the big unusual person-like angel. We all stood there like stones. Then the voice continued: “Tell me your wishes, and I will make them come true.”
Then Nancy said: “I want to be a child again…” and started to laugh hard, as if mocking that angel. Then the surprising thing happened. We saw a little girl standing there. That was Nancy.
“Oh my God, what I did!” cried Nancy.
Then we started to believe in her power. Then I told her my wish: “I want peace in the world, I want all the people live in kindness and devotion. I want them never know what trouble is. I want to be happy with my family, with the people surrounding me.”
Then she did some motions and told me that when we go back, I’ll see that my wish has come true.
But then our conversation was interrupted by the cry of Nancy. She wanted to be big again.
After it, one of our friends told her wish: “I want Nancy to be big again”. Then the angel made her big.
That was amazing. Just I can’t describe those feelings in words. One of our friends asked for having a great amount of money. And then… the angel made her wish come true. Then… then disappeared.
For ten minutes we were just looking at one another without saying even a word. That was fascinating.
“Finally we’ll live in peaceful world, in a world where you can never find a place, where starvation kills people, where people are unhappy, where a lot of refugees feel depressed, feel neglacked by some people. Finally… finally we will live in a world where kindness and sincerety are the leaders, the commanders…” I thought. Then started to believe in miracles.
After it we went to sleep. In our dreams, while sleeping, the angel came and told us how she appeared. This is how it happened:
There are some creatures in that forest who became angels when they feel the smell of marshmallows. So, at that very time, Nancy was preparing her dish, then the creature felt the smell and became an angel.
This was interesting. Just I can’t find any other word to describe my feelings.
That day, was one of the funniest days in our life. It taught us a lot. After that, we started to believe that miracles can happen. We learned that we can take a step, even if we don’t exactly know what is going to happen. We also learned that nothing can be compared with friendship and support.
Though it was only one day, we learned more than we can learn in many days. And after that I can surely say that MY FRIENDS ARE IRREPLACABLE!!!
Second Place: Arina Parnyan, Ijevan
You and your three closest friends decide to go camping. You arrive and set up camp nearly three miles away from where you left your car. Late that evening, as you sit around the campfire roasting marshmallows, one of your friends reveals a deep dark secret that turns what was to be a fun weekend into one of the scariest weekends of your life.
Spending your time with your friends especially with your closest friends is something great, and I live this kind of spending time. Once we were watching a movie when, my friend suggested us go camping. First it looked a great idea and nothing was wrong, especially as I was fond of camping. We decided to go camping on Saturday and stay there for a night. On Friday we went shopping. We bought everything we need. It was already Saturday, I couldn’t sleep all night. I was thinking how great we are going to spend our time. It was 10 o’clock when I heard the sound of my friend’s car. I took everything we need of course first of all food and chocolate as I can’t live without chocolate even a day. So we started our journey. It took a half an hour to get there. That place is near to Ijevan and it’s called “Aghjka berd” or if we translate it, “Girl’s castle”. The castle was destroyed during the ages but the walls are on their places. In the castle lived the lover of one of our kings, Ashot Yerkat’s.
Now about the way. We were listening to music and playing games during the whole time. Finally we got to the castle. We were surprised to see that amazing building. We left everything and went there to see and to examine everything. But then I asked them to go and to make our tent because we have much to do.
So we made our tent. And then we went to bring some wood in order to have a fire and not let the fire turn off. It was already 6 o’clock. I was so hangry. We cooked barbecue. It was so tasty. There were more than a year that I hadn’t eaten barbecue outdoor and especially near the fire. Then we clean everything, wash all the dishes and started drinking tea and eating cake. It was getting darker and colder so I went and brought some coats. But it was dark and everything was so strange especially the castle. My friends noticed my fear. They were talking to each other. When I asked what about they are talking they didn’t answer but as I’m very stubborn I asked so much that they said that they were afraid that maybe my fears will become greater. I said that everything is okay and I have no fear. They looked each other and one of them started telling a story.
First it was about the lover of Ashot Yerkat, how much they loved each other and then. Then everything became awful. She told that nobody comes there at night because once a person went inside and they couldn’t find her. I started being afraid but of course I tried not to show. So she continued telling, that once the girl asked Ashot Yerkat to leave his family to go and live with her and to forget all his lovers but the King refused and after that she killed herself and that her ghost all the time… she couldn’t finish telling the story when I heard some sound I became pale and I was trembling.
It seemed to me that someone is coming near. But I turned and nobody was there and I could breath. Without asking me if I wanted to hear or not my friend continue telling the story. That all the time the ghost tries to find the king’s wife and all his lover to kill them and to become the unique one for the king. Here the story ended. I continued trembling then she said that she wants to sleep in order that she could drive the car the other day. Our 3rd friend was sleeping already some 1 hour. I couldn’t wake him up. So I stayed alone. Even when a leaf was moving I got out of my place in order to see if someone was there. It was the worst night of my life. I thought that my friends were sleeping. But what was there. They were planning something. And I couldn’t even think about that.
It was already 4 o’clock. It was so dark, cold. The wind was blowing and what was the worst I was alone. I started to hear some strange noises. Then I turned…
I saw girls in white dresses. Girls or girl, I don’t remember exactly I just remember that when one of the disappeared the other one appeared… I just lost myself! I went to the tent. What I saw. I saw nobody there. The placed of my friends were empty. I started to shout I thought that the ghost took my friends. I was crying. Seeing that I cried so much and that I couldn’t even breath normally. My 2 strange and adventurous friends came in. Seeing them I was so happy and even didn’t think that they were the girls in white dresses and that everything was because of them.
It was already morning when I was calmer. They started to tell that the girl (the lover of the king) never killed herself and that they created everything and no one and never was lost in the castle.
Frankly said I wanted to kill them because it was really terrible. But what I can do as they are my closest, dearest and the most adventurous friends.
So we came home. Everything was already okay. But then I never go camping with them.
Third Place: Nelly Gevorgyan, Ijevan
You are studying very hard one night when you hear a knock on your door. You open it and are surprised to see yourself standing there looking back at you with a very serious expression. The other you says, "Listen, I know this is going to seem weird, but I had to come back in time to tell you this." What happens next?
Oh well, this is the most awkward and the weirdest situation I have ever been into. You know, as a girl I always wanted to see how I look like from the side, but I never thought it could ever happen, well except looking at me on the pictures ha-ha-ha…
Have you ever had a secret that was so dangerous? I mean the one if you tell about, something bad would happen. Ok. If you are normal human being you will answer “NO”. As I am not a normal human being, and I am not a human at all and my dangerous secret has already been discovered let me tell my life story:
I am D-10, but all the people that know me in real life call me Gaby as human. I was born in little country called Denmark. As a child I was a beautiful slim girl with redish eyes and fairy long-long hair. Everyone who saw me imidiatly liked me and considered to be the most beautiful and wonderful creature. Unlike my appearance I was an ordinary child who attended kindergarden, ther school. My parents were always proud of me as I always got high marks. Then it was time to go to college. I had already made up my mind to become a doctor and save lifes many, many lifes (my only fear was death). Ok I know that my story is a boring one like an ordinary life stories but see what happened.
One evening I was so bored and decided to go to the nearest bookshop and buy an interesting book for me. The weather was really cool. It was my favourite. I was alone then. I went picked up an interesting one and my head burried in the book. I went out of the shop. Crossing the road I didn’t notice where I went exactly. I was sure that I was on the right way but rising my head I suddenly noticed a red shadow following me. I was scared to death. I wanted to shout but my voice couldn’t come out. Suddenly the shadow felt on me and I loose my mind. When I woke up I found myself in a dark tunnel surrounding with odd creatures. OMG, what is going on? Where am I? These questions were on my head but I was not able to answer them. Besides this I had a strong disire to drink something but it was not a disire of water at all. I wanted something other, something that I hadn’t ever tried. Finally a man approached me. He was so tall and large. I started to ask questions like who are you, why am I here… instead of answering he started to laugh. You can’t imagine how much I wanted to die right there. The strong ununderstandable desire, the odd man’s laughter made me only think about death and death only. Suddenly I so a mirror on which appeared a message wrote by blood. There was only written, Now you are one of us. Do not tell this anyone unless something bad will happen. The head vampire.
This was shock, stress I don’t know how name the feeling in my heart but that day, that moment and that message really changed my life. For a while I thought it was jock but it wasn’t. The man gave me a cup filled with blood and took me my room. First days were awful for me I hardly could keep myself from eat anyone but days went on and I started to learn how to behave as a normal man. I was drinking only blood of animals at night. This situation was so awful, I always was keeping me away from my friends, family. But one day I started to cry and complane saying Why God? Why this happened with me? Vampire? I am vampire? No God please, for what? I hadn’t noticed that my father was near my room and had listened all these. In this case I had to tell him everything. Finishing my story and proving that I was right the clouds turned to stones and started to fall down. Many peoples were killed and those who were saved had to live in the tunnels. Everyone was afraid of me, several times they tried to kill me and I decided to hide my beautiful self under ground. Since then I am living underground with other vampires and worms.
Hello, I am Gaby (D-10). I am vampire with redish eyes and fairy hair. I am 153 years old and I am guilty for the awful things happening all over the world…
You and your three closest friends decide to go camping. You arrive and set up camp nearly three miles away from where you left your car. Late that evening, as you sit around the campfire roasting marshmallows, one of your friends reveals a deep dark secret that turns what was to be a fun weekend into one of the scariest weekends of your life.
Friendship is like a ray of the sun, it enlightens your life, when your friends are with you and your life seems dark and dull when that ray of the sun disappears.
Generally, my best friends take a very important role in my life. They are my inspiration, the engine which leads me to new adventures, fantastic and magnificent places. Usually, travelling and camping make friends closer, make people understand one another better, find more colorful lines in life.
Taking into consideration this thought we decided to go camping together.
At first, it was very difficult for us to choose a suitable place to camp, as we needed an adventurous place to stay. Finally we found a fantastic place to camp, just it was three miles away from the place where our car could be left. We had taken many tasty dishes with us. One of our friends had taken marshmallows. All of us like marshmallows without roasting. Only one of our friends, Nancy, likes them roasted on the fire. How much we persuaded her not to roast them, in any case, she decided to prepare a “tasty dish”.
The evening was deepening, and the atmosphere was becoming more and more fascinating. We all were tired, but for Nancy. We went to our tents and decided to have a rest a little. Only Nancy was sitting next to the fire and preparing her favorite marshmallows. The smell of marshmallows was pretty nice. This was the first time she was preparing. But then, a flash of light appeared near the tents. We all were terrified. What was happening there? Nobody could say. And then we hearn an unusual voice: “I am here to make your dreams come true. Ha ha ha”.
At first it seemed like a dream. Then we all went out to see where Nancy is. She was standing near the big unusual person-like angel. We all stood there like stones. Then the voice continued: “Tell me your wishes, and I will make them come true.”
Then Nancy said: “I want to be a child again…” and started to laugh hard, as if mocking that angel. Then the surprising thing happened. We saw a little girl standing there. That was Nancy.
“Oh my God, what I did!” cried Nancy.
Then we started to believe in her power. Then I told her my wish: “I want peace in the world, I want all the people live in kindness and devotion. I want them never know what trouble is. I want to be happy with my family, with the people surrounding me.”
Then she did some motions and told me that when we go back, I’ll see that my wish has come true.
But then our conversation was interrupted by the cry of Nancy. She wanted to be big again.
After it, one of our friends told her wish: “I want Nancy to be big again”. Then the angel made her big.
That was amazing. Just I can’t describe those feelings in words. One of our friends asked for having a great amount of money. And then… the angel made her wish come true. Then… then disappeared.
For ten minutes we were just looking at one another without saying even a word. That was fascinating.
“Finally we’ll live in peaceful world, in a world where you can never find a place, where starvation kills people, where people are unhappy, where a lot of refugees feel depressed, feel neglacked by some people. Finally… finally we will live in a world where kindness and sincerety are the leaders, the commanders…” I thought. Then started to believe in miracles.
After it we went to sleep. In our dreams, while sleeping, the angel came and told us how she appeared. This is how it happened:
There are some creatures in that forest who became angels when they feel the smell of marshmallows. So, at that very time, Nancy was preparing her dish, then the creature felt the smell and became an angel.
This was interesting. Just I can’t find any other word to describe my feelings.
That day, was one of the funniest days in our life. It taught us a lot. After that, we started to believe that miracles can happen. We learned that we can take a step, even if we don’t exactly know what is going to happen. We also learned that nothing can be compared with friendship and support.
Though it was only one day, we learned more than we can learn in many days. And after that I can surely say that MY FRIENDS ARE IRREPLACABLE!!!
Second Place: Arina Parnyan, Ijevan
You and your three closest friends decide to go camping. You arrive and set up camp nearly three miles away from where you left your car. Late that evening, as you sit around the campfire roasting marshmallows, one of your friends reveals a deep dark secret that turns what was to be a fun weekend into one of the scariest weekends of your life.
Spending your time with your friends especially with your closest friends is something great, and I live this kind of spending time. Once we were watching a movie when, my friend suggested us go camping. First it looked a great idea and nothing was wrong, especially as I was fond of camping. We decided to go camping on Saturday and stay there for a night. On Friday we went shopping. We bought everything we need. It was already Saturday, I couldn’t sleep all night. I was thinking how great we are going to spend our time. It was 10 o’clock when I heard the sound of my friend’s car. I took everything we need of course first of all food and chocolate as I can’t live without chocolate even a day. So we started our journey. It took a half an hour to get there. That place is near to Ijevan and it’s called “Aghjka berd” or if we translate it, “Girl’s castle”. The castle was destroyed during the ages but the walls are on their places. In the castle lived the lover of one of our kings, Ashot Yerkat’s.
Now about the way. We were listening to music and playing games during the whole time. Finally we got to the castle. We were surprised to see that amazing building. We left everything and went there to see and to examine everything. But then I asked them to go and to make our tent because we have much to do.
So we made our tent. And then we went to bring some wood in order to have a fire and not let the fire turn off. It was already 6 o’clock. I was so hangry. We cooked barbecue. It was so tasty. There were more than a year that I hadn’t eaten barbecue outdoor and especially near the fire. Then we clean everything, wash all the dishes and started drinking tea and eating cake. It was getting darker and colder so I went and brought some coats. But it was dark and everything was so strange especially the castle. My friends noticed my fear. They were talking to each other. When I asked what about they are talking they didn’t answer but as I’m very stubborn I asked so much that they said that they were afraid that maybe my fears will become greater. I said that everything is okay and I have no fear. They looked each other and one of them started telling a story.
First it was about the lover of Ashot Yerkat, how much they loved each other and then. Then everything became awful. She told that nobody comes there at night because once a person went inside and they couldn’t find her. I started being afraid but of course I tried not to show. So she continued telling, that once the girl asked Ashot Yerkat to leave his family to go and live with her and to forget all his lovers but the King refused and after that she killed herself and that her ghost all the time… she couldn’t finish telling the story when I heard some sound I became pale and I was trembling.
It seemed to me that someone is coming near. But I turned and nobody was there and I could breath. Without asking me if I wanted to hear or not my friend continue telling the story. That all the time the ghost tries to find the king’s wife and all his lover to kill them and to become the unique one for the king. Here the story ended. I continued trembling then she said that she wants to sleep in order that she could drive the car the other day. Our 3rd friend was sleeping already some 1 hour. I couldn’t wake him up. So I stayed alone. Even when a leaf was moving I got out of my place in order to see if someone was there. It was the worst night of my life. I thought that my friends were sleeping. But what was there. They were planning something. And I couldn’t even think about that.
It was already 4 o’clock. It was so dark, cold. The wind was blowing and what was the worst I was alone. I started to hear some strange noises. Then I turned…
I saw girls in white dresses. Girls or girl, I don’t remember exactly I just remember that when one of the disappeared the other one appeared… I just lost myself! I went to the tent. What I saw. I saw nobody there. The placed of my friends were empty. I started to shout I thought that the ghost took my friends. I was crying. Seeing that I cried so much and that I couldn’t even breath normally. My 2 strange and adventurous friends came in. Seeing them I was so happy and even didn’t think that they were the girls in white dresses and that everything was because of them.
It was already morning when I was calmer. They started to tell that the girl (the lover of the king) never killed herself and that they created everything and no one and never was lost in the castle.
Frankly said I wanted to kill them because it was really terrible. But what I can do as they are my closest, dearest and the most adventurous friends.
So we came home. Everything was already okay. But then I never go camping with them.
Third Place: Nelly Gevorgyan, Ijevan
You are studying very hard one night when you hear a knock on your door. You open it and are surprised to see yourself standing there looking back at you with a very serious expression. The other you says, "Listen, I know this is going to seem weird, but I had to come back in time to tell you this." What happens next?
Oh well, this is the most awkward and the weirdest situation I have ever been into. You know, as a girl I always wanted to see how I look like from the side, but I never thought it could ever happen, well except looking at me on the pictures ha-ha-ha…
Have you ever had a secret that was so dangerous? I mean the one if you tell about, something bad would happen. Ok. If you are normal human being you will answer “NO”. As I am not a normal human being, and I am not a human at all and my dangerous secret has already been discovered let me tell my life story:
I am D-10, but all the people that know me in real life call me Gaby as human. I was born in little country called Denmark. As a child I was a beautiful slim girl with redish eyes and fairy long-long hair. Everyone who saw me imidiatly liked me and considered to be the most beautiful and wonderful creature. Unlike my appearance I was an ordinary child who attended kindergarden, ther school. My parents were always proud of me as I always got high marks. Then it was time to go to college. I had already made up my mind to become a doctor and save lifes many, many lifes (my only fear was death). Ok I know that my story is a boring one like an ordinary life stories but see what happened.
One evening I was so bored and decided to go to the nearest bookshop and buy an interesting book for me. The weather was really cool. It was my favourite. I was alone then. I went picked up an interesting one and my head burried in the book. I went out of the shop. Crossing the road I didn’t notice where I went exactly. I was sure that I was on the right way but rising my head I suddenly noticed a red shadow following me. I was scared to death. I wanted to shout but my voice couldn’t come out. Suddenly the shadow felt on me and I loose my mind. When I woke up I found myself in a dark tunnel surrounding with odd creatures. OMG, what is going on? Where am I? These questions were on my head but I was not able to answer them. Besides this I had a strong disire to drink something but it was not a disire of water at all. I wanted something other, something that I hadn’t ever tried. Finally a man approached me. He was so tall and large. I started to ask questions like who are you, why am I here… instead of answering he started to laugh. You can’t imagine how much I wanted to die right there. The strong ununderstandable desire, the odd man’s laughter made me only think about death and death only. Suddenly I so a mirror on which appeared a message wrote by blood. There was only written, Now you are one of us. Do not tell this anyone unless something bad will happen. The head vampire.
This was shock, stress I don’t know how name the feeling in my heart but that day, that moment and that message really changed my life. For a while I thought it was jock but it wasn’t. The man gave me a cup filled with blood and took me my room. First days were awful for me I hardly could keep myself from eat anyone but days went on and I started to learn how to behave as a normal man. I was drinking only blood of animals at night. This situation was so awful, I always was keeping me away from my friends, family. But one day I started to cry and complane saying Why God? Why this happened with me? Vampire? I am vampire? No God please, for what? I hadn’t noticed that my father was near my room and had listened all these. In this case I had to tell him everything. Finishing my story and proving that I was right the clouds turned to stones and started to fall down. Many peoples were killed and those who were saved had to live in the tunnels. Everyone was afraid of me, several times they tried to kill me and I decided to hide my beautiful self under ground. Since then I am living underground with other vampires and worms.
Hello, I am Gaby (D-10). I am vampire with redish eyes and fairy hair. I am 153 years old and I am guilty for the awful things happening all over the world…