Trans-Asia expedition
Who are these people that went from Italy to Hong Kong via Armenia? We are told they put a girl named Irina Karapetian on the Net!

1. Find the "Reconnaissance Notes from Central Asia" dated Wednesday, October 30, 1996. Who is the organizer of this expedition? What are Irina's favorite sport, team and player?

GlobaLearn mounts live expeditions all over the world. Participating students interact with GlobaLearn's remote expedition teams via their Web site. At each stopping point, the team is hosted by a local school child who offers a personal introduction to the local community.

Irina was the local host in Armenia. She loves basketball and her favorite player is Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls. This is a picture of Irina:



2. Can you find the photo titled "Armenian Man - One of the Caretakers of the Church at Geghard" on the Trans-Asia Expedition site?

The image can be found at: http://www.globalearn.org/expedition/journals/
drew/jrn970224-yerevan-drew.html



3. What was the local news headline on February 24, 1997 according to the expedition log?

"Composer Constantin Petrossian Returns from Two Years in Rhode Island, United States"

4. We need more interesting WWW links (URLs) regarding Geghard. See what you can find.

Here are three Web pages on Geghard:

http://www.rpi.edu/~keefej/Geg.html

http://www.armeniaemb.org/monast/
geghard.htm

http://wotan.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~houssik/
Window/keghard.html

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