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Russian Invasion: Part Deux?

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:30:00 +0800

(Georgia / Gamarjoba Georgia)
I'm not back with a full-on post--that would be way too productive. However last night I thought I was about to be coming home to the States and not for good reasons. I was watching a movie with a ...
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Georgia in the News

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:25:47 +0800

(Georgia / "Georgia on my Mind")
It seems that recently Georgia keeps popping up in the news. Whether for good or bad it's funny how small a country can constantly gain international attention. Here's some highlights:news.bbc.co.uk/2 ...
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Video blogs for your viewing pleasure!

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:50:00 +0800

(Georgia / Tetri Kwavi)
I promise I'll actually tell you about things going on with my life when I have some time. Maybe tomorrow after school. For now enjoy these videos I finally got uploaded. The Georgian Homestead Ra lamazia! (How beautiful!)
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Happier

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:34:00 +0800

(Georgia / T'blogatory)
Sometimes (ok a lot of the time) it’s hard to feel normal as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Or rather what we now perceive as being “normal” seems very far from what used to be considered the statu ...
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Picture updates!

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:57:00 +0800

(Georgia / Heather and Jeff in Georgia)
More picture updates have been posted!NEW - RustaviNEW - Urban Art (check out our new photo series)UPDATED - Telavi 2010Go to the left side of the blog homepage to check these out!~ http://heather-jeff.blogspot.com
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Updates Galore! Huzzah!

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:00 +0800

(Georgia / Gamarjoba Georgia)
So I’m getting pretty bad about actually updating this here old blog. Maybe the Georgian mentality is gradually setting in. Help! The onset of laziness is apparent. Pretty soon I’ll be refusing ...
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March is women's month because it's spri ...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:21:00 +0800

(Georgia / Heather and Jeff in Georgia)
The holidays have come and gone and back to work we go. Yes I'm aware it's March. In the first two weeks of March there are 2 holidays! The first is March 3 Mother's Day. Schools are out no one ...
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The lights satisfaction HOLLYWOOD!

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:09:00 +0800

(Georgia / Are you there Marina? It's me, Jefferson.)
Another round of Gamarjoba's (hellos) for everyone! (my treat)How quickly the months plan themselves! So it seems like March as is good as over! New things going on with me: HOT WATER! That's right fo ...
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milesingeorgia: Behavior Management #1: ...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:04:01 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: Behavior Management #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T O7Z1CoJsuc
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Behavior Management

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:00:05 +0800

(Georgia / YouTube)
Author: milesingeorgia Keywords: Added: March 8 2010
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milesingeorgia: @ghull Moved back in wit ...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:56:42 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: @ghull Moved back in with the host family. As we both know I don't have the best track record. When the going gets tough I get going.
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5 March 2010

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:21:00 +0800

(Georgia / Purple Peas)
Who wears the pants in your school? Students' codeDespite being a public school my students must wear uniforms. The girls wear red plaid skirts and white button down shirts accented with matc ...
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War and Peace a tale of class warfare

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:45:00 +0800

(Georgia / Notes of a Scribbler)
I had a Russian teacher once who didn’t much like me. In her defense I did not attend class with particular regularity. In my defense this was because she had committed two terrible indiscreti ...
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milesingeorgia: I live a free life but i ...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:22:29 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: I live a free life but it gets lonely at times.
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28 February 2010

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:09:00 +0800

(Georgia / Purple Peas)
Six MonthsTime. With each passing breath the time changes. It changes our perspectives on things. As what was once tomorrow becomes yesterday our ideas about an event an experience ...
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Moving On...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:07:00 +0800

(Georgia / Tim in Georgia)
As usual I have struggled to find the time to keep this blog updated. Therefore I will bring it to a close with this post.First the name of the blog is no longer apropos. I am no longer in Georgi ...
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You'll miss your train and come stay with me...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:25:00 +0800

(Georgia / Are you there Marina? It's me, Jefferson.)
I need to get better about not taking hiatuses (plural also just hiatus but sounds strange) from my writing. So many great things have happened since we last spoke. Where shall I begin? So due to ext ...
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milesingeorgia: No gas/water ... forced ...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:56:15 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: No gas/water ... forced to adopt a raw food diet. When was the last time you ate a raw potato for breakfast? I did 20 minutes ago.
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Picture updates!

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:33:00 +0800

(Georgia / Heather and Jeff in Georgia)
More pictures have been uploaded!NEW - Akhaltsikhe/VardziaNEW - Telavi 2010UPDATED - Tbilisi 2010UPDATED - Toilets of GeorgiaGo to the left side of the blog homepage to enjoy all the sights!~ http://heather-jeff.blogspot.com
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აქ ვარ ძია! Vardzia

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:07:00 +0800

(Georgia / Heather and Jeff in Georgia)
After training we went on a long weekend trip to the town of ახალციხე (Akhaltsikhe) and out to the cave city of Vardzia. The town is in the southwest corner of Georgia tantalizingly ...
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COA

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:55:00 +0800

(Georgia / Georgian Tea)
So I'm not dead just really distracted!I promise to make a real entry soon. In the meantime I wanted to note that the PC office has moved. Any mail should be sent to the below address. Thanks! :)Alison Kieler29A Vazha Pshavela AvenueP.O. Box 66Tbilisi 0160Georgia
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forgotten things

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:20:00 +0800

(Georgia / Saint Facetious)
bleeding hearts and soft jazz songs the bass hum moving up slopesof sanguine sorrow drifting longthrough the winding smoke elopeswith varied tongues in parley native and foreign gatherwhile those al ...
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forgotten things

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:20:00 +0800

Beyond the Point of No Returns

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:13:15 +0800

(Georgia / Notes of a Scribbler)
There’s no two ways about it. Writing is an insane activity. Both when it’s working—and one walks along city streets in earnest deep conversation with oneself periodically stopping still t ...
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milesingeorgia: Settling into my Georgia ...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:32:33 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: Settling into my Georgian bachelor pad. Shooting has begun for a new short film guaranteed to be worse than the last!
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Ministry of Education's English Teacher Plan

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:24:00 +0800

(Georgia / Heather and Jeff in Georgia)
Click here for more details about the Ministry's plan for English teachers in Georgia.~ http://heather-jeff.blogspot.com
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Teach in Georgia for a year!

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:34:01 +0800

(Georgia / "Georgia on my Mind")
Last week all the volunteers gathered together for another IST (In-service training). During that time we were fortunate enough for the Georgian Minister of Education come and speak with us about a br ...
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This Woman's Work

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:16:00 +0800

(Georgia / T'blogatory)
Well hellooooo there! I feel like I actually have some things to report. A nice change from the monotony (and by that I mean EPIC ADVENTURE) that is life in a small Georgian village. The first th ...
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Training (and what came of it)

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:23:00 +0800

(Georgia / Heather and Jeff in Georgia)
This past week we had training. Most importantly this meant we had the opportunity to shower every day! We took so many showers our skin used to a layer of grease started to dry out. Weird. The ...
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A Thousand Points of Light

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:19:00 +0800

(Georgia / Heather and Jeff in Georgia)
Attention attention! The Georgian government has a once-in-a lifetime employment opportunity especially for you! Okay so you won’t get a salary but you will get a round-trip ticket from America t ...
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Afternoon with Leila

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:47:00 +0800

(Georgia / Alene and Peter in Georgia!)
Today we spent the afternoon with our friendly neighbor Leila. We’d met her previously but this was the first time we’d actually been invited as guests to her apartment. She lives alone because ...
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If you’re reading this Elton John pl ...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:42:00 +0800

(Georgia / Alene and Peter in Georgia!)
About 2 weeks ago I arrive at school early to have an interesting conversation with the husband of our school caretaker Danya. Every school in Georgia has a caretaker who also lives in the school. O ...
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milesingeorgia: Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lad ...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:00:55 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
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27 February 2010

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:56:00 +0800

(Georgia / Purple Peas)
A look at my holidays in Georgia. http://www.peacecorps.gov/minisi te/flash
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Decisions decisions!

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:45:00 +0800

(Georgia / Musings of a Super Hero)
For the last few weeks I have been inpatiently waiting to hear back from one of the several Tennessee AmeriCorps programs I've applied for.Last night out of desperation I basically said "fuck it" an ...
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Mad Props & Stop Reading This Blog!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:05:19 +0800

(Georgia / ka·thect:)
Ok so I have encountered a bit of resistence about the location of my blog. It seems that kathect is too weird so I am stealing from the famous youtuber ”milesingeorgia& #8221;. Thank you M ...
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Z food!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:33:01 +0800

(Georgia / Laura the Explorer)
Cuisine Georgian national cuisine is notable for an abundance of all possible kinds of meat fish and vegetable hors d’oeuvres various sorts of cheese pickles and pungent seasonings the only ...
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milesingeorgia: @Mallory_Wood I'm alread ...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:06:09 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: @Mallory_Wood I'm already living tomorrow. It's not great
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milesingeorgia: Glad To Be Unhappy: http ...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:04:42 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: Glad To Be Unhappy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d x8TLPz3Lws
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milesingeorgia: Some days are more frust ...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:01:32 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: Some days are more frustrating than others. Today is one of them.
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milesingeorgia: A cardigan makes ANYTHIN ...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:51:37 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: A cardigan makes ANYTHING business casual. Nike sneakers Monmouth tennis shirt "villaged" jeans and a cardigan. BUSINESS CASUAL
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milesingeorgia: @lalaz1ski Hi I have int ...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:47:58 +0800

(Georgia / Twitter / milesingeorgia)
milesingeorgia: @lalaz1ski Hi I have internet at the hotel I'm at so sign on sometime.
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Stone Cold

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:40:02 +0800

(Georgia / Notes of a Scribbler)
My new thing is stonemasons. I read a great book a while back by a master stonemason (Thomas Maude) and ever since then I can’t get enough. From stonemasonry to architecture to sculpture I’ ...
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Battered Reader Syndrome (Or why I have ...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:38:28 +0800

(Georgia / Peaches and (Sour) Cream)
I’m sorry for neglecting you dear readers. I really am. Why haven’t I posted in so long you ask? Well it’s mostly due to the lack of PC-related happenings recently. Okay letR ...
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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:50:32 +0800

(Georgia / Kathleen's Photo Gallery)
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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:50:20 +0800

(Georgia / Kathleen's Photo Gallery)
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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:50:09 +0800

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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:50:01 +0800

(Georgia / Kathleen's Photo Gallery)
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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:49:49 +0800

(Georgia / Kathleen's Photo Gallery)
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Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:49:39 +0800

(Georgia / Kathleen's Photo Gallery)
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