GYPSY CURSE!

Well,
We all knew this would happen sooner of later, but I've finally been cursed by a gypsy. I don't want to go into details. But evidently my crazy russian neighbor cursed my apartment. Don't worry, evidently she does this to everyone. At least I didn't get the doll with pins stuck in it.
That's all for now.
Wish me luck. You know what they say about gypsy curses, "may all your wishes come true"!
AHHH!

More pictures

Okay, so last post I couldn't post all my pictures so here are the rest.


My dining room table!
Austin and I hanging out on our soviet futon
Best picture of Austin Ever taken.
Statues outside metalurgical plant.
Metalurgical plant.
John and I hard at work. I'm reverting back to type.

Picture time

So here are the long awaited pictures of my apartment I promised. Sorry, but better late than never. I don't have much more to add.

Ferris wheel in the Rustavi park

View from the ferris wheel in rustavi's park

John and Erin. I actually did not mean to post this image, but I don't know how to take it down. So here are my friends John and Erin.
View from my front balcony in my apartment!
Erin and I hard at work editing the "tamada". they won't actually let me on the newspaper so i'm just an intern. All that bullsheet experience is worthless. I'm a mere peon yet again.

Summer's here

Summer has arrived in rustavi, and it is hot. I know that others claim that their site is the hottest in Georgia (namely those in the west) but i would contend that rustavi is even more miserable in the summer. Sure we don't have heinous humidity, but what we lack in moisture we make up for in sheer misery.
The variances in flora, fauna, climate and topography in Georgia are astounding. Rustavi is maybe 15 km from Tbilisi but the land scape is totally different. Don't get me wrong, blissy is dry, but there is vegetation and far more greenery there than in Rustavi. All the sudden when you hit rusti everything changes. No vegetation, different rock formations, it's crazy. 20 km north of blissy it is the same thing. Totally different and an alpine climate. In the center of the country it looks like the smoky mountains and it is way cooler there than any where else. And in the west, it is subtropical. It is insanity. All of this in a country the size of Ireland!
I am depressed though because all of the beautiful green rolling hills around Rustavi have suddenly turned brown. It hasn't rained here in weeks. it almost rained last night, but turns out we got something closer to heat lightning. Being in a city does not make the heat any easier. My theory is that the city just enables things to become dustier, windier and makes the heat more suffocating.
But enough complaining! I am getting out! hurrah! I am going to the beach! School is almost over (praise allah) and I can get out of this city! I do love my site. I am very happy here, but in the summer Rustavi is just not the place you want to be (even with my newly purchased fan!). Thus, I am going to batumi, then north to the baltics!
This entry is rather pointless.
I'll try to put up more pictures later.
PAKA
lizzie