Duck, Duck, Goose!

Well, this week has been great! Started school, catching up with friends and fam, teaching, grape picking, and supra tonight!!

This week started out quite interesting though. I get to school on Monday to find out I have no schedule for teaching yet and probably no classes that day. I was there for 3 hours for a 10 minute presentation.I still am not sure what time I need to be at school on Monday because the teacher that I am suppose to be teaching grade one and two with had no idea about our classes on Wednesday and I was there 2 hours before I actually had to be. I am actually getting to do some teaching this semester though, which is so much fun :) I also found out that aparently, the English World books refer to an eraser as a rubber. I found this out when Mari (my co-teacher) was doing translations with my grade 4 class and one girl put her hand up and answered "Do you have a rubber?". OMG I legit almost spit my water all over the desk. I casually mentioned to Mari that we should call them erasers from now on! I am really looking forward to this semester, I can't wait to dive into the teaching and see how much these kids learn this semester :)

On Friday, I took my grade 3 class out and taught them how to play duck duck goose as a reward for finishing their homework, it was SO MUCH FUN!!! I now have grass stains all over my jeans, but it was totally worth it!! It was hard getting them to get the hang of it at first because my co-teacher (who usually translates things into Georgian) was inside with the other kids that didn't finsish their homework. It is such an amazing feeling though, when the kids actually start to catch on to what you are teaching them. We eventually had an audience of kids looking through the windows of the school, even other teachers were coming out to see what we were doing. Im pretty sure I enjoyed it just as much as the kids did :)

Yesterday I went into Telavi, then spent the night at Neema's in Zemo Alavani, which is another village close to mine. It was nice to catch up and have a girls night. When I got home today, I spent the afternoon picking grapes. It was a lot of fun and a lot of laughs. Thankfully there was a couple visiting from Russia who spoke a bit of english so I could actully communicate with everyone :) Then at 6, I was invited over to their house for a Supra, where we had even more laughs and all the toasts were translated for me by the Russian couple so I actually had an idea of what was being said. Lots of food and lots of laughs made for a great night :) I can still hear the party going on next door!

I am very much looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow and having a very relaxing day! Next weekend we are taking a trip to Batumi (the Black Sea), and I will hopefully get a chance to post some pictures!

Love and miss you all!!