In 2018, when 23-year-old Narine Poladian boarded a flight from Beirut to Yerevan, her suitcase held an interior architecture degree, and her mind was set on a few months of volunteering through Birthright Armenia. She had no plans to radically alter the course of her life. "Leaving your family and moving wasn’t something customary for us. But I wanted to change my life and bring something new into it," she said.
What began as a volunteer experience became a journey of self-discovery and re
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While helping build a home in Vanadzor with Fuller Center, during one of our off days, we had a Master Class with Nadine. She is exactly as you portray her in your article. We each chiseled a letter of either our first name or last name on a small round piece of tuff. She added a magnet on the back and we had a beautiful souvenir of our adventure. Nadine also sells other ceramic pieces which are all handmade. Definitely worth the trip to go and visit.
My apologies as I misspelled Narine’s name
Narine is an Armenian treasure.