When it rains...

Or, in this case, when it SNOWS.  SURPRISE!!!!!11!!11ELEVENTY.  Happy St. Joseph's Day.


Yep.  This morning I woke up to a fresh coat of snow lining the track to the bathroom.  I do the familiar all-purpose-question-hand-gesture to host g-ma.  "Vigundaot?" she responds, making a snowball and pretending to toss it at me. (So, a language that can express "let's have a snowball fight" in one word can't be ALL that bad, right?)  However, it was all melty by the time I got off school.


I headed to Kwareli today with my counterpart to observe the computer trainings that some teachers from our school are taking (that my host mom skipped out on today).  They were doing stuff on an interesting website, lemill.net--it's got some interesting links for sharing resources.  If every teacher here lesson planned and shared their lesson plans on there, the education system would be much improved.  But pooling resources doesn't seem to be The Way with teaching.  Money and food and most things, yes.  Hm.


And, the computer trainings might be more fruitful if the teachers grasped basic concepts like select, cut, and paste, more concretely before trying to post their lesson plans on this site.  At least I have an idea of how much work my potential tech training in the village is going to be.  Too bad all they want is a CERTIFICATE, hell if they actually know how to tell the difference between my documents and microsoft word.  *sigh*
Maybe I'll just spend some time on GIMP and make my own.  You're Pahoola Shmidi certified!!!^©


Anyway, take it from me, you've never lived until you've pregamed a violet-picking-hike with three shots of chacha.




მომავლის მიზნები:
grad school?
thus, GRE?
(aka, work on figuring out what the heck to do with myself when this gig's up)
get muscles back
install kubuntu with working internet by the end of the weekend
catch up on the various PC stuff I should probably do...
work on being a little less intense/less of a wet blanket on my own party
start up work on Georgian again
learn some Russian while I'm here
be more attentive to people not in my immediate surroundings that I care about, PCVs and friends back home included
bake some babovka tomorrow (if there's milk...) for late st. j. day. celebray.