Whoops. Bye Summer. And most of Fall.

First of all, a lengthy apology is in order. I'm sorry I have not blogged in basically 3 months. Summer is over, I have been at site since July 20th. I thought blogging would be much easier than this - it is certainly not because I don't have time. Yes, I am busy, but I have enough time to blog. I need to either make it a higher priority, or just stop posting. Unfortunately I am strongly considering the latter. I also don't like this blogging website that much. My PC friends with Tumblr and wordpress have way, way cooler blogs.

I suppose I can finish this "catch-up" blog though, now that I have started. What is life in your town like? What do you do at your organization? What do you do in a normal day? These are your questions. I know.

 Every day I get up at 8, eat breakfast, and make my half hour walk to work to start around 9:30. I get lunch with my host parents at 1:30. Then back to the office until 6. Sometimes I exercise after work, sometimes I read, and sometimes I go off and do social things with my host parents. My organization works with a variety of issues in Ozurgeti, specifically we have a Leadership school for kids 14-17, we research and advocate for schools and about education issues. We advocate for students and childrens rights. All of these themes have events or programs that my organization operates to improve the condition of these issues.

So much has happened since I last blogged that it is impossible to recap everything. That may have been part of my hesitancy to continue blogging. I hate to do anything halfway (which now I am forced to do) and I know that I cannot properly update you on things like my weeklong LIFE camp out in east Georgia, or my trip into the mountains of Khevsureti. It is so hard to do this summer justice in a blog. Trying to understand the language that is flying around me takes more effort and energy than I realized. I passed my language exam before I swore in, but that only puts me at Intermediate-low level. I still have so much I need to learn, and trying to follow conversations throughout the day slowly makes the brain quite tired. Considering the English language is slipping away day by day this blogging thing has just been too difficult (just kidding).

The day before my birthday, I got to go to Baxmaro, the local beautiful mountain area here in Guria. About 5 days later it snowed out, but the day I was up there with my organization, it was absolutely beautiful. Khevsureti and Baxmaro have been my favorite places in Georgia. Here are some pictures from the summer (stream swimming, on an excursion with some co-workers, really old wine, and some kids I got to work with over the summer).