Today was a good day. I went for a run around the center of Batumi and taught two successful lessons at the university and then had another great lesson on essay writing. The students are really motivated and smart. I give them homework to write journal entries every week, and the girls really seemed into it. In this circumstance I am able to talk so freely with my students. They are all 4th year students, many are married, and they are all female. I won’t go into detail on this, but here (and in the USA) I face considerably less classroom management issues with females. I won’t say why because that’s not my place. I’ll just say that I’m able to laugh and joke around and be myself without the class getting out of hand. Also, I’m able to talk to them all in English. I did spend the first 10 minutes talking in Georgian about myself. I want them to feel comfortable and know that I respect them and their country enough to not just be here, but to try and learn their language. I also wanted them to know that I can understand enough Georgian that they can’t have too many side conversations.
That’s basically my entire day. There isn’t too much else to talk about.
I also just took a look and my latest blog post about “About a Girl” has received more hits in one day than any other post I’ve had before. I’m not sure if it’s friends and family reading it again and again, but there were a lot of people from Georgia reading it as well. I’m not really surprised—I put up a photo of a beautiful Ukrainian and suddenly it gets people clickin’ on my link. I’m glad everyone enjoyed seeing that.
I want to inform all my Georgian visitors to check out my sister-in-law’s blog as well. My sister-in-law is an army wife and writes some great stuff. My niece and nephews are the coolest kids ever, AND she is trying to adopt an international child. Yeah, my brother makes a few appearances her and there, but he’s funny looking and we try to hide him in the basement as much as possible. JUST KIDDING! But seriously, her whole blog really took off while my brother was serving his second deployment (first Afghanistan then Iraq). As for the adoption the whole process is amazing and we are all anxiously waiting for the go ahead on whether we can celebrate the adoption yet (we should find out soon). So if you all could take a chance and check out her blog and offer support we’d all appreciate it. Also click on the little link to your left to see some nice information about the boy!
So long and goodnight.
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