Cough Cough

Yeah. Coughing. Totally have a cold. It is not fun. I knew I was coming down with something last weekend but I still persisted to have fun. Since when do I pass on things cause of a simple cold? Not when I'm in another country...I've managed to mostly dodge the runny nose bullet though. Not completely, but mostly. Which is better than not at all.

Although I predicted a quiet week, in truth it's only been semi-quiet. Mostly because of Tuesday. Tuesday during class, I was invited to go on a field trip with the fifth class. The teacher wanted me to go, and it was to see the museum of a poet in Vani. So I said yes.

 It turned out to be a little more than just to the museum of a Georgian poet, but also to an archaeology museum with findings of ancient Greek's from that time. The first museum was the archaeology one, so I was a little confused, but I just went with the flow. The museum itself reminded me a lot of a college museum. It was small, with displays labeled in Georgian and poor English. It was rather interesting, but cold. All buildings here seem to have this strange quality of feeling colder than it actually is outside.

After we looked around inside, well, I looked, the students had a guide who gave them a lecture about everything, we took an old metal bridge over the road to some old sites where there were foundations of old buildings. Nothing really spectacular, just a few stones. But it was a beautiful day out, and it was nice to see some of the area.

The next destination was the poet's museum. I was getting tired of being on my feet, so I didn't enjoy this one quite as much. It was pretty landscape, and the student's read poetry in front of the poet's statue. I'm still not quite sure what his name was. They only told it to me and I don't remember it well enough to write down. We got to see his home though, an old shack with dirt floors. More standing there, while they listened to a lecture. Again, another thing that was interesting to see but certainly my seeing interest didn't last as long as their lecture. Then they listened to more lecture in the actual museum building, which was mostly paintings and some writings. Kind of History of the time-ish from what I could gather. At least that one had benches for sitting on!

After that there was a picnic. (Thank goodness...I was starving!) Lots of chicken, and cutting it with scissors, which I passed on. Instead I had lots of hajapuri, which is a type of cheese bread. It was good, but between that, cake, and wafers, I got overstuffed. The scenery there was really pretty though, it was right by a river, and not too cold in the sun. My camera batteries died about then, and I forgot to bring my other set, so I only got a couple of pictures from there. (I think). :(

Anyways, Wednesday was a school holiday. Saint George's day, the patron saint of Georgia. They spent the morning in church, and while I intended to go with, due to my cold I stayed in bed. Which was probably the better choice for me and my sanity. I would've been bored long before it was over, unable to understand a word, and I'm pretty sure they stand the entire time...but it was a quiet day.

Thursday and Friday have been quiet as well too. I actually got to use the internet at night once, which was nice, I got to talk to people! Anyways, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I keep moving between forgetting and remembering that it was Thanksgiving, it's kind of weird.

:)