Tidbits 4?

*It's cold!!! today the thermometer read 10° C, which if you times by 3.8, divide by 7.984, take the root of blah blah, and then enter it into google search as [10c to f] to do the work for you, means 50° F. I grew up in Arizona where today's high was 86. I don't do cold.

*Along with the cold there has been abundant rain. It has been raining for almost two days straight. So when there was finally a break I decided to do laundry, thankful for a window of 30 minutes where it wouldn't be raining on me. I'm so glad I have a college degree too, because I remembered right after pouring the soap and water on my clothes that 30 minutes was not enough time for my clothes to dry hanging outside in the open.

*One of the lessons today consisted of explaining the words "low" and "high" followed by reading a text on a boy knocking over his tea and burning his grandmother. Then it went right into how to make plurals and use them with present tense, followed by the negation of past simple tense. This was all in two pages. I titled my lesson plan "Headache and a Half"

*My mom mailed me a really scholarly magazine I had wanted to read. (total lie, it was People magazine). On the back of the envelope was a stamp from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. My letter went through Uzbekistan. I don't think that Uzbekistan is on the "please do travel to" list for the United States, so I found it interesting that it is on the "please do send our mail though here" list. But somehow I got it, yay!

*I have been looking into a way to take an Economics course online from over here, and I am amazed at how stupid some people are in terms of the logistics of Peace Corps. One suggestion from one college was that for the final test, I just hop on over to Arizona since it has to be officially proctored. Yes, why don't I just hop on over there for a day?

*There is a man in Rustavi who seems a little off his rocker and sells knives on the street outside a store I often go to. It's a little scary because he sometimes follows you and he likes to grunt and yell "gogo" (girl) to get you to buy knives, all while waving his hands crazily. Oh yeah, his hands are filled with the knives he is trying to sell.

*one thing I have really missed from the states are Garbanzo beans and hummus. My good friend in a nearby city found some garbanzo beans dried in his bazaar, so when I was visiting him this past weekend, we went and bought some. and by some I mean two kilograms. a lot of freaking garbanzo beans are now sitting in a bag in my room.