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Published: January 29th 2012
We arrived home to Shilda to knee high snow, no power and or water. We were lucky that we took the Murshutka that we did as ours was the last to make it through the snow to our village for a couple of days.
We were supposed to begin our first day of the semester the following day however more snow fell at night and it was cancelled. We spent the weekend making snow men, having snow fights and walking around the village which looked completely different under the blankets of snow. I also spend a lot of time huddled besides the fire place reading.
The snow as bought out many young boys and men in our village walking around with pallet guns used for shooting small birds. Our host brothers have proudly presented these dead birds to us after an afternoon of shooting (I freaked out and hid under my jumper…they thought this was hilarious). These birds are eaten by the family and are apparently a delicacy.
Monday was Aaron's birthday. Our family had a supra with lots of delicious food, we got to help make the kinkali with grandma which was a highlight for me. Aaron
was given lots of gifts including wine, (horn) traditional drinking thing and Russian sweets also I had saved up some sweets that you can not purchase in Georgia from our trip (these were meant to last Aaron the next couple of months ...however after one day they were demolished).
The drinking has continued, the normal drinking combined with the celebration of Aaron's birthday and St Ninos day(A big day for Georgians) has left Aaron and I feeling a little worse for wear. An average day begins for Aaron with one or two shots of cha cha followed by 5- 10 shots (small glasses) of vino in the afternoon and another 5-10 at dinner. When there is a celebration these quantities blow out...with obvious consequences.
Aaron walks home by himself after school and is often pulled up by groups of men who stand on the side of the road (we are still not sure what many of them do) and on one occasion he had to stay and drink beer and eat nuts for about an hour. He returned home the first time with a very confused look on his face and just said “I’ve had five beers, eaten
Old Soviet building
We found this massive now unused old soviet building near School one. It smelt like someone had been living there...Amazing how such a massive building can not be put to use somehow.peanuts (which he dislikes), with who I don’t know and why I can only guess", it was pretty funny to see.
Our village regained power after 5 days (although it still cuts out for a couple of hours or so each day. We still do not have consistent water..at times it returns for half an hour or so...usually not long enough for a shower or to run a load of washing. Smelly is an understatement... I guess we can take comfort knowing that we are all smelling together.
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Home and Away
Bob Carlsen
Our cat looks just like Besties...
and please add the recipe for Kinkali (or your favorite Georgian dish) to your blog. Looks delicious.