Oh, I so love my cows!

It seems like we've been in Georgia for months. We've officially been in our village for eleven days, but it seems like so much longer than that. This is in great part due to the very busy schedule we've been keeping. We have Georgian language training Monday through Saturday from 9am-1pm, then we go to lunch as a cluster, switching every day to eat at a different one of the 5 volunteers' host families' houses. From 2:30-6, we have our practical training in teaching English in Georgia. We've started observing some English classes at the school in our village and soon will have to start running some practice activities as well. On top of this, we've got nightly homework, visiting with our host families, watching lots and lots of Spanish-language-but-dubbed-in-Georgian soap operas and, most importantly, the daily requirement of eating at least two tons of bread and cheese. It's been fabulous.

The cheese is, of course, homemade by our host mom, as Sam mentioned. It's an interesting type of cheese- something like the taste of feta cheese, with more the consistency of mozzarella. Cheese is such a staple here, and most of the families seem to own cows. It turns out that our host family has two cows. I was talking with our host mom about the cows and asked her if they had names. She told me, "Oh, I so love my cows! Of course they have names!" So, thanks to Gogona and Nisha, (and of course, Maia's constant milking of said lovely cows, and her expertise in cheese making), we eat a lot of tasty, tasty cheese.

I'll try to get straight which cow is which and post some pictures for you to all see what great cows they are.