Heeeeeerrreeeee's.... more training.

I'm still in the middle of training and as a fellow TLGer put it, feeling like I'm in The Shining. We've been stuck in the hotel for roughly 12 hours a day (8am to 8pm) training and trying to learn Georgian. It's been pretty intense and I feel like I haven't really experienced Georgia at all, despite being here for around 5 days now, haha. Never fear though, when we get out to our respective towns I'm sure we'll have Georgia coming out our ears. So I'm not worried, just bored as of now. I did go to a bar/cafe last night with a couple of the other TLGers and that was REALLY nice seeing something other than whitewashed walls and fluorescent light bulbs. Our cab ride there was interesting to say the least. Cabs in Georgia are ridiculously cheap. It costs 5 Lari (3 USD) to get all the way into the city center from our hotel, and when you split that between 4 people in the taxi, it costs next to nothing. This also means that your cab driver doesn't necessarily have to be the most, um... experienced. Our cab driver got hopelessly lost trying to drive us to a jazz club we wanted to go to and ended up driving through a LEGIT construction site, bottoming his car out TWICE, then turning around Austin Powers style. See the link below for the appropriate scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTzv3N25rqI
But seriously, we NEARLY scraped the side of a giant cement truck, hit 2093489324 different people, and got the car hopelessly stuck all in the span of 15 minutes. Somehow none of those things happened and our cab driver dropped us off in front of a church, pointed to it and said "no car there". So we got out at the church that was clearly not our jazz cafe/bar. After several people offering to help us in EXTREMELY broken English (Georgians are amazingly nice to foreigners. Seriously REALLY friendly), we actually ended up right behind the church where our cab driver said we should, but who we didn't really believe after the whole getting lost debacle. It was great fun and a fabulous first ridiculous adventure and from what I've heard, one of many that will probably happen to me if I ever get out of this hotel ; )