Ok Ok, I have been really slacking on the blog posts but i just haven't been able to pick up a wireless signal in my village, strange.

Anyway things are going well here, only 3 more weeks of training until I go to my permanent site for 2 yrs. I will be sad to leave my host family and my great village of Kheltubani. I just finished up two weeks of practicum, which was pretty much summer school with the village kids. We planned four lessons a day in english for kids between the ages of 8-14. It was really fun and i learned a lot about teaching in general, especially classroom mangaement. I did have to enforce a "no wrestling rule" a couple of times but other than that it went quite smoothly. I even was asked for my autograph by a number of students, repeatedly. I am finally getting the celebrity i deserve and alll I had to do was come to Georgia.

This is a picture of part of my totally rad host family, Giorgi, Ledi and Lela (she left for of all places Texas for a student exchange program today.) This was taken at my first birthday supra which involved much bad dancing of both the georgian and american variety.

Below is a picture of my house in Kheltubani. It's a pretty sweet pad even though it looks like some sort of factory building in the picture. Geogrgian houses are like motels in a way. Usually two stories but all rooms are accessed from the outside with the stairway outdoors as well. This will make for fun times in the winter I'm sure.

Now for the piece de resistance of my post...drum roll please....the cave city of Uplositkhe!!! My host family took me on a little excursion to this ancient cave city outside of Gori last week.

This city is high in the hills of Georgia making for some killer views of this river (its name i have forgotten but probably couldnt spell or pronounce it anyway) which runs the entire width of Georgia, from the Black Sea all the way east to Azerbaijian.

That is all for now, I hope this will hold you over for a couple weeks.