pWhen Jonathan Maiullo landed in Armenia, he had no idea what he was getting himself into. He couldn't read the alphabet, he didn't speak the language and he was none too con64257dent in his ability to teach English as he'd been sent there to do. As Jonathan or Jon jan bumbles through lessons about hospitality, tan carbonated buttermilk and oghi homemade fruit brandy he comes to understand why his benevolent hosts are so 64257ercely proud of their country.br This diary offers the unique opportunity to experience a beautiful and culturally impressive country for the 64257rst time. Jonathan's long walks carry the reader across mountainous Armenia from alpine Lake Sevan down into the biblical Ararat Plain, from a peaceful religious festival into the turbulent Nagorno-Karabagh con64258ict. Each new insight, each revalation in acculuration is celebrated with the reader in this direct account of life in an unfamiliar place that eventually became home.p