Oh my...

Well, haven't I epically failed? My time in Georgia is all but slamming to a stop and I have what four or five posts to show for it. Well at least it lasted for a few weeks. I just got tired of everything here all the hard stuff. At points it felt like all there was in Georgia was "hard stuff". But it turns out thats not the case. It turns out there was just one person making my life miserable....

More later

-j

There is No Place Like Home and Georgias Not Even Close.

So I miss home

A whole lot

Can't you see why?

I am afraid this is all I can write tonight. I have been avoiding writing a post for awhile now. But I have a good reason and that is, I have not felt like posting. End of story for now.

-j

Late Start

School is scheduled to commence tomorrow September 15'th and I have very little idea about what I will be doing. My thought this morning is, schools back home have been in full swing for a month now and we are just starting. The other thought is, that the first few weeks of school (in Georgia) are really just a warm up session and only after this two week period will we really commence lessons. My goal is to in some ways go along with this warm up period, while in others go against this. In my personal endeavors I will try to be productive, creative, and motivated. We will see how this goal holds up.

My new place

These have brightened my apartment so much! Thank you guys so much.

They are the most beautiful works of art I could want.

My special things from home

Where I sleep. The doors go out to a balcony but its got bared metal doors that have not been unlocked yet. The view is the road and neighboring houses.

Chailuri

Watermelons are in season and they are so delicious!

This is Brian's friend Waho, he speaks English very well.

We went to the swimming hole in the village. Years ago someone's great grandfather dug it out. You can see the dried up river behind us.

Here we are the three amigos!

This is the castle of Patara Chailuri. It is said that there is a tunnel that runs from it to a neighbouring town, but no one knows where it is any more.

I wish I could find it.

The king and Queen:)

Turkey

My mermaid cove and my new house

Turkish Coffee

Turkish Dinner

Turkey was wonderful. We managed to only spend 250 dollars. I still can't believe that, but that was the total. Our friend was also very generous and paid for our water and cokes. he also bought us some really good cookies, as well as taking us to his house for dinner. He was Greek Orthodox Christian, but I think the rest of his family is Muslim( other than his wife)

The dinner was really wonderful. The soup was lentils and tomato and some other spices. What made it really good was the lemon we squeezed in it. The yogurt was so yummy and the Baklava for dessert was so good. The whole experience was such an adventure.

The next day he took us to the movies. We saw Eclipse. It was in English and I thought it was pretty funny that I was watching such an American film in Turkey.

All in all it was a lovely place. Very different from home, but in a good way.

-jonnie