It's Autumn here! Which is pretty fun for an Arizona girl who grew up
still wearing shorts well into December sometimes. In Georgian, to say
"in" you add the endings -shi or -ze to the end of words. Like
Amerikashi, means
in America, or
consertze means
at the concert. You
use -shi more often, but -ze is more for events. So the fact that
Georgian requires -ze for the use of Autumn and Spring, versus -shi like
with Winter and Summer, shows just how much of an event Autumn is. My
neighbors and family have been hard at work harvesting the corn,
pumpkins, squash, eggplant, and most importantly here, the grapes! My
students have been absent from school, helping out to pick the grapes.
Trucks and donkey-carts go by on the street full of grapes, and supras
end each day as a reward for a hard day's work of picking.
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| Tina trying to sneak up on us. She does this a lot, she's not very good. ha |
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| walking back through the rows of grapes |
Not only is it harvest, but the trees are starting to turn colors too. My friends Sam and Melissa came out for the weekend, and we decided to go for a hike up to a nearby waterfall. The trail was beautiful - huge trees, a river, and golden leaves falling. Unfortunately there were floods a little while ago, and we got to a point where we couldn't make it across the river or forge our way ahead anymore. We spent maybe an hour trying different ways, but decided if it was possible we wouldn't be able to find it. So we turned back, still happy with our "walk in the nature" and came back for some deserved beer and khinkali.
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| there were some river crossings we were able to manage, like this one |
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| then there were others that left us pondering |
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| you can't really see it, but its lots of rocks and 4 fast running areas of the river |
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| Sam's attempt |
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| Melissa's attempt |
It's Autumn here! Which is pretty fun for an Arizona girl who grew up
still wearing shorts well into December sometimes. In Georgian, to say "in" you add the endings -shi or -ze to the end of words. Like Amerikashi, means in America, or consertze means at the concert. You
use -shi more often, but -ze is more for events. So the fact that
Georgian requires -ze for the use of Autumn and Spring, versus -shi like
with Winter and Summer, shows just how much of an event Autumn is. My
neighbors and family have been hard at work harvesting the corn,
pumpkins, squash, eggplant, and most importantly here, the grapes! My
students have been absent from school, helping out to pick the grapes.
Trucks and donkey-carts go by on the street full of grapes, and supras
end each day as a reward for a hard day's work of picking. 
Hey Kelsey, that looks gorgeous in your corner of Georgia. I'm an rpcv from Senegal on my COS trip with another Senegal rpcv. After a couple weeks of regular site-seeing tourism, we're looking forward to finding a place where we can get that village experience again. We figured Georgia would be a good place for that and would love to get in contact with PCVs there, sınce you guys would know the best spots to visit for that kind of thing. We're trying to get to Georgia in the next week or two. İ know you guys are busy with the school year, but ıf you have the tıme, here's my email ıchartman at gmaıl. i'll be sure to have a cell phone when ı we get there. Thanks. Ian Hartman
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