So I'm finally coming up to the end of my pre-service training. 11 weeks of working about 11 hours a day, 6 days a week. it reminds me of my time when I had a real job back in the states. I feel comfortable with basic verbs now, and can speak in future, present simple, past progressive, and past simple tense. I no longer go on long conversational rants about how I have 20 pens and that I live with 50 cats, but I don't know how much beyond that point I am. On friday morning I'll be shipping out to my permanent site for the next two years, a small village called tsoniarisi. It has about 850 people in it, and the school that I'll be teaching at has about 145 kids. the village of Tsoniarisi used to be a communist collective farm, so now actually no one lives in the village, it is instead comprised of 5 small villages that circle the former farming central, and I have yet to learn their names.
My new village is known for two things: a big tank that stalin gave them after WWII, and for good tasting water. here is a picture of the tank
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| Kids playing on the tank |
And here is the view from out my window (high mountains, and a river. not bad.):
I've had a good time living in Khotashini, I had a great host family with some nice (though gossipy) younger kids who actually spoke english very well. I don't know when I'll be back to visit them, my cluster mates keep saying that we'll be back in october, but I think that might be a bit of an assumption considering how hard it is to travel around this country, despite its small size.
I have internet now too, which is really good, so I'm looking forward to being able to update my blog on a more regular basis. I know I went awhile without saying anything, but the combination of how poor I am plus the very busy schedule we had in PST made it difficult to update. I'll have about a month off now before I have to start planning for my summer camp, where I'm probably going to have a sports camp depending on the weather. Stay tuned for more!
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