christmas chores

it wouldn't be christmas without chopping a little wood. this is me and beso, mark and lisa's host father cutting wood to keep our christmas warm.

at lisa's school

me and paul went to lisa's class for her christmas party and it was great, her kids are awesome. the hit of the day was limbo, which i am sore today from, and the ball-under the chin-no hands-passing game. it was a great day.

christmas shopping

here is what it looks like when you want turkey for christmas dinner. notice the one lonely duck in the middle, poor guy.

Christmas in Georia

well merry christmas to all from georgia! thanks to the miracles of a rotating planet i am able to send you the pictures of our christmas before yours has really started. things here are great, i am in zugdidi with my friends (right to left in the picture) paul, mark, lisa and christy. we are staying with mark and lisa, a couple from new york state and they are wonderful! we all opened presents this morning (that mostly consisted of cheap crap we all bought at the same bazaar) and had a bottle of champagne together. now we are cooking a christmas dinner that has turned out to be vegetarian. we wanted to buy a turkey at the market, but they were really expensive, not that bit, and you have to kill, pluck, gut, clean etc. yourself, so the extra cost wasnt worth it to us in the end. we have a squash soup going, a baked ziti type pasta dish, and a creamy cucumber number, as well as eggplant with some of the non stinky type cheese that we found in the market. so life here in the big city has been great for paul and i the last few days. mark and lisa have cheap internet phone, so i was able to talk to a few people back home which was great. also we went to lisa's school to help with her christmas party with her classes which was so much fun. all in all, it has been a great way to celebrate christmas while not being in the states. i don't have too many funny stories but hopefully i wil get some posted up here soon. until then, marry christmas to all, and especially to my brother ryan and whitney and their new baby soon on the way. i miss you so much and am thinking of you constantly. take care, lots of love, merry christmas.

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this is my final post for the night, and guess what it is, Bombora!!!! plus all the wood i cut for the winter in the background. anyway, i am realizing that there are more pictures of my dog on here, than my students, and that is not intentional, just that i haven't taken my camera into class yet. i have enough trouble keeping their attention as it is. but, just as a real blog type diary note, i am loving my kids at school, they are great. they seriously keep me going everyday, even when they are crazy. why? because i know i was crazy in highschool, and i know i still am a bit, so we get along pretty well. bombora fits into that catagory pretty well too. so, in conclusion, more to come in probably about 2 months when i will have the internet again, and sorry my blog is terrible. but, like the address says, i love you.

mountain town

this is my host dad Beno and my host mom Eliko, and out town and the Caucusus mountains, with the new winter snow fall. the town picture i took from the other side of the river up in one of the nearby villages, and that is just me beno and eliko on our living room couch, boring i know. so i am looking at all these posts and need to tell the world that it is 3am and i am just trying to get pictures out to the world. this blog is not funny nor intelectual, and i am misspelling so much stuffffffffff! iam an english teacher for crying out loud, forgive me. the keyboard is a foreign object at this point. forgive me.

picnic

my students and i went on this picnic/ hike in the summer. we were looking for a church but took a wrong turn directly up hill (i was in favor of that option instead of looking just for the church) and ended up with such an amazing view after a pretty tough hike, especially since i was totally out of shape and carrying the watermelon in my backpack as a surprise for the kids when we finally got to our picnic spot. turns out they didn't want much and i ended up eating myself sick making the hike down terrible. these guys are so great!