In Georgia

Okay, so I said I would make a blog entry and I will! I just don't happen to have a lot of time at the moment! :) Its incredibly amazing here. The city is sooo old. For all of you who had a hard time picturing where Georgia is, here are some little things to help you remember: Its the location for the myths of Jason and the Argonauts, as well as the Golden Fleece. Matthias the apostle is supposedly buried here, and it was historically the second nation to actually claim the state religion as Christianity. It used to extend from the Black to the Caspian Sea, and in soooo many ways, it is the Ireland of this part of the world.

When I got here, I was telling Christine, the girl from the US on our trip, about home, and mentioned the Blue Mountains. Tony (Tonya but she doesn't like that), who is Russian-Georgian (She is Georgian but her first language is Russian) asked about whether at home it was mountains like here and I laughed and told her how we call it a mountain but its really just a big hill... it looks like a mountain because its mostly flat and coming out of a valley. She shook her head and said "In Georgia, everything is mountain" and boy is she right! Its absolutely BEAUTIFUL here. Tbilisi is in a valley type thing... surrounded by ridges. Our village where our base is, is on one of the ridges. Its only like a fifteen minute drive to get to Tbilisi... driving here is crazy (although, some of the boys back home I think beat them in the crazy catgory). Its so much fun...


Last night we were bussing from Tbilisi back to the village (mom don't have a heart attack, it was the entire group including our actual DTS leaders) and the bus was crowded... it was about 9 pm o it was dark outside as well... a family got on and Natia, the girl I was sitting beside all of a sudden got up because she saw them and gave her seat to the mother and daughter, who was maybe five. Well I sat another stop, before I noticed her husband was holding a baby and trying to keep his balance... so he had moved up into the actual aisle... So I got up and tried to give him the seat.

He kept trying to tell me to sit down, and he knew some english and Natia translated so I understood but I just kept saying Ara... no. Natia told him I got up because they were a family and he was holding a baby and trying to keep his balance. So... I got told to sit by his wife, and she then informed him to pass me the baby :P It was so random and so much fun. My Georgian is not very good but they tell me its okay lol... so they were all laughing at me when I sat down and started talking to the baby. There are now some pictures of me and the family. They were very nice and the children here are so adorable most of the time..

I will have to tell you all about Erma and David and Tia later, but for now, my time on the computer is more than up. :)