Much to Catch up On, Part 1: Christmas Program

So finally I've gotten settled down with all of my things moved out of my old apartment and into the new, with a host family I adore thus far. They don't have internet right now though, so I'm where else but Prospero's in Tbilisi so I'll catch you up on what happened around Christmas. In a nutshell, I helped put on a Christmas program at my school, got a present from the president of Georgia, and left the country for a nice relaxing time in Munich, Germany with a friend I met on exchange in Freiburg.
Here's a picture of me blogging. This is the most western spot (aside from the Goodwill grocery store I just discovered) in the whole of Georgia. So naturally I flock to it all the time for some good old internet usage and french presses of coffee.

The Christmas Program was a huge success. We decorated the choir room and put up a Christmas tree, as well as a whole bunch of Christmas/New Year's cards the students made. New Year is a bigger holiday here than Christmas is, so most of the cards were New Year themed. The kids recited poetry, did a couple cute little skits, and sang Christmas songs, all in the cutest manner humanly possible :D It was pretty much the best Christmas Program of all time. Afterward, the Director of Curriculum at the school got up, addressed me for like 15 minutes, I think thanking me for being there and talking about how there have been positive changes in the school since my arrival, but I can't be sure because the whole spiel was in Russian and the only thing that I got translated to me was the only part of the speech I was certain about. Hahaha. After a 15 minute speech, all they told me was "He said thanks a lot". Hahahaha. I'll just leave it up to my imagination all of the nice things he was saying about me. Basically that's all I can tell ya about the Christmas Program, I'll leave you with a copious amount of pictures though, because those describe it MUCH better than I can! 

 First one is a picture of the kids in one of my 4th grade classes singing.

 This one is a mishmash of different classes, but the girls were all reciting little poems we gave them to memorize. Quite impressive for little kids, if you ask me.

 Don't tell the others, but this was my favorite haha. It was a little play the 4th grade class put on about a little Christmas tree who doesn't get picked to go home with a family so all his little animal friends decorate him in the forest. This class has outrageously awesome English pronunciation. They're WAY cute.

And finally the obligatory picture of me and the other English teachers. I think I might have a video somewhere around here of the kids singing Jingle Bells or something. I'll hafta look for it and update you if I can find it.