Quick! An Update Before the Internet Goes Away!

Haha, but seriously, that's pretty much how it is. I wanted to check in so people don't think I'm dead; I've made it to Rustavi and am getting settled in with my host family, who are... well... VERY excited to see me. Hahaha my host dad said I'm not Kropp anymore, I'm Llkajdsfkjasdfiasdjflasd (something I couldn't possibly pronounce EVER, but their last name, so you get the point), my host mom keeps calling me her docherinka (little daughter, even though I'm about a foot taller than her), and my host sister constantly wants to hold hands and be best friends (she's 20). Haha, so I'm feeling the love for SURE. I'm pretty positive they gave me the biggest bed they own, which is CLEARLY for 2 people, and they found out my birthday is tomorrow so I don't even want to know what they're going to do for me that I'm sure I'll feel guilty over, just like this bed. Which is sounding kind of negative, but seriously, haha their niceness is a little overwhelming. I'm sure it'll wear off after the newness of having me in the house wears off as well. Also, I'll probably be the fattest person in the universe once I'm through teaching here. Here's a run down of the day's food: pasta with heavy cream and bread for breakfast (not even kidding in the least), donuts and coffee for lunch, ice cream, and something untranslatable for dinner which was really yummy chicken with a plate full of basically grits with a "bitter plum" (according to the dictionary) sauce. Oh, of course, and bread. And they wonder why I can't eat it all. Hahaha.
I've also been getting the most intense Georgian lessons EVER from my host sister, who is really eager for me to learn Georgia, so we can get on with being best friends already (her English is pretty minimal). But luckily for me I instantly earned "good girl" status with everyone by attempting to speak Georgian followed by actually speaking Russian when I arrived. And don't underestimate the good girl status, especially when you're American. It's that or "easy girl" sooooo I'm thankful I didn't really have to do much to get the former title haha.
OH and the food for all you fatties that specifically asked for food info. haha. The food is HEAVY. I'm already running into a wall with it, and I've been here a week. I don't know what my host mom did to this chicken, but it looked disgusting sitting in the sink and I was a little wary... 30 mins later and what comes out onto the table is amazing. I assume she waved a magic wand? Georgians make everything EXTREMELY salty, mainly because there's cheese in a LOT of stuff and Georgian cheese is borderline too salty to even consume. For foreigners, of course. : ) There's a LOT of carbs. One thing that would interest you guys (Doug and Richard) is the Khinkali (KHH like in Hebrew). They're dumplings filled with meat and you can't eat them with a fork  because when you bite into them all the meat juices pour out and you just make a mess on your plate if you cut them open. I'll post pictures when I'm more sure about my internet connection, but you could probably google the name if you reallllly were that interested. You guys would like them though. Maybe I'll get a recipe to bring back!
Anyway, I should go before all this is useless because my internet craps out. My host mom and sister said the internet would be ready tomorrow, so maybe tomorrow I can start scheduling some skype dates with everyone? I'm doing well so far, definitely getting into that freak out phase because I can barely communicate with anyone here, but psyched to start teaching, hopefully Tuesday!