The life.

So here are some pictures of pretty much what my life in Georgia has consisted of. This first is a picture (excuse the bad quality... the guy we were with who took the picture didn't understand you have to hold the camera STILL for a second while the photo takes) of me, my host sister Khatia, and my neighbor Maia. My host sister is to the left. We basically sit and chit chat while huddled around the heater. I complain about the lack of heating in the houses, but it sure as heck forces you to be in close quarters with your family/friends. : ) We usually have good times talking about boys and complaining about work. People REALLY are not the different everywhere. Haha. Mondays are universally hated and hot chocolate and cookies when it's cold are universally loved. Boys are ALWAYS the cause of major concern and talking to friends about it always makes it better. In this particular picture we were getting coffee and desserts and such while listening to the winner of "Geostar" (the Georgian version of American Idol) sing some pretty amazing jazz, if I do say so myself. 

And this is my neighborhood. It's called microlocation #15. HAHA, thank you Soviet Russia. You can't see my building from here, but it looks exactly like all the others, except that there's a pretty distinct blue door on one side. Anyway, I'm standing almost exactly at the spot I hail my marshutka (a blog post will be dedicated solely to marshutkas in the future) every morning, so I walk the path you're looking at twice a day. And after I took this picture I checked... haha, the trees actually do all lean like that. I never noticed it before I took the picture, and I have no idea why they do.