We are slowly starting to settle into the Georgian way of life...we just wish the weather would sort itself out! One day it's 25 degrees and the next day it's cold and raining which is shortly followed by snow :( It also doesn't help when we see on the news that England has experienced some of the warmest days in March on record!
We must admit that our time so far has not been without its challenges. The language barrier probably being the one that is most apparent. Here are some questions we have asked local people and their responses...

'Will there be snow tomorrow?'
'OK, do you want to go to Tbilisi by bus or by train?'

'Are you on duty today?'
'You want to divorce your wife?'

'It's so cold, I wear 3 layers to bed!'
'You want to go home and rest?'

'Where is your daughter today?'
'Yes, she is a cruel girl.'

We understand that it must be difficult to understand a native speaker and only wish that Georgian was a little easier to learn!
School is going well and the children get cuter everyday. We are getting plenty of exercise as it is a 30 minute walk each way and there is plenty to see, like stray dogs, cows, stray dogs, pigs, stray dogs, that's about it!
We are missing pasties and roast dinners, orange juice and real chocolate. Our diet here consists mainly of bread, cheese and eggs, a lot of salt and hardly any vegetables. Our host Mum is good at cooking traditional Georgian dishes like Khinkali (meat dumplings), Khachapuri (cheese bread), and some other things we don't know the name of, like cabbage parcels stuffed with meat and rice, a bright red soup with potatoes, carrots and cabbage and rice or pasta cooked in milk and sugar.
Here are some other things that's happened or that we've learnt so far...

•Georgians love alcohol and often offer us vodka at school.
•Some sort of fake, explosive device went off in the markets and almost deafened us as we walked straight into it.
•A double glazing salesman would have a lot of work here.
•Joe has developed a liking to some weird concoction of nuts sunflower seeds and sultanas which is grey, looks like a brick and breaks up into a paste like consistency. Weird.
•Georgians say 'Deda' a lot and it means 'Oh dear'.
•Apparently Georgia's weather is our fault as it is 'British weather'.
•We still wear the same clothes to bed, and to work, and don't take our coats or hats off in class!
•We are going to 'Couch Surf' in Armenia for the first time over Easter.
•In Georgian, 'Deda' also means Mum and 'Mama' means Dad.

Anyway, that's all from us.
Nakhvamdis for now! :)