Sunday, February 10, 2008

Hello from Tbilisi

I am in Tbilisi again this weekend working on a project for the incoming volunteers. It is weird to think that in less than six months our beloved G6s will leave us and we will be the experienced and all knowing G7s to the new, un-jaded and freshly scrubbed G8s. I hope that we can pretend to have as much useful information to give them as the G6s gave us.
Julien and I are busy, which is a good thing because as some of you know we lost our souls to a little known TV show called "Lost" or "Losti" in Georgian. I don't think that it is healthy to care so much about narcissitic people who crashed on a beautiful tropical island only to be chased by man eating polar bears, equally dangerous black smoke and "the others". I know that this description has piqued you interest, so maybe you can understand how so much of our January was lost to Seasons 1,2, and 3. But the good news is I am using it as a teaching tool, killing two birds with one stone, rewatching episodes I have already watched hoping to better understand the "secrets" of the island through a second viewing and teaching the kiddos very useful phrases such as, "Duck!", "What was that?", "Is that a polar bear?", "Quick hide in here", "When 'the others' come we'll be waiting for them with this dynamite we found in the old pirate ship wreckage." and so on.
Julien and I have also unveiled the much requested "English for adults" class. We have been asked to teach a class like this since before we even started to live in Terjola, and we had put it off for long enough, so it began two weeks ago. After a slow start with only one teacher from the First school attending the 1st week we had a bumper crop of new students last week, with about 30 attending. I think that this will be a good activity for us after school and in the summer when things are sure to slow down becuase we won't be busy with our 15 hours a week slaving away teaching at school.

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