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Tag Archives: sakartvelo
Georgian Is As Georgian Does
Reblogged from Making a Difference: Exactly one year ago, I was going over my checklist of things to pack for Georgia and wondering what the heck I had decided to do. My mom had already told me her fears for … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Language, Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia)
Tagged behaviour, caucasus, city, does, education, efl, esl, expat, experience, gamarjos, georgia, georgian, is, kartuli, learn, mas, ministry, opportunity teach abroad, placement, quartuli, sakartvelo, science, stipend, tbilisi, teach, teacher, teaching, tefl, tlg, village, volunteer
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Street Vending: Should it be Legalised or Should the Poor be Allowed to Continue?
This morning I received an invitation to a talk given in Tbilisi by a PhD student about how the poor in Georgia use different coping mechanisms to survive, one of which is street vending. Without speaking to the PhD student, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Georgian Life
Tagged budget, busking, class, current-events, daily, different coping mechanisms, disability, disabled, divide, drunk, ends, finance, flowers, georgia, illegal, law, legal, life, making, marginalised, meet, money, officer, people, plants, police, politics, poor, rich, sakartvelo, sales, seed sellers, seeds, selling, society, street, struggle, sunflower, survival, talk, tbilisi, tight, vending, vendor
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WENDY'S
Reblogged from Making a Difference: Sixteen years ago – in May, 1996 – two of my friends and I got ticket vouchers for the advance screening of a movie called Independence Day. This was before the marketing for the movie … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia)
Tagged abroad, adventure, american, caucasus, cooked, countries, country, diner, dishes, eating, english, expat, fast, food, foods, foreigner, fries, georgia, georgian, learn, recipe, sakartvelo, tbilisi, teach, teaching, tlg, travel, wendys
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1. Tbilisi Street Bouldering Festival
Reblogged from Climbing in Georgia: Street bouldering is a trend becoming more and more popular throughout the world. For Georgia, it is a rather new genre which yet has to establish itself. On June 2, the first Tbilisi Street Bouldering … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, Health and Fitness, Uncategorized
Tagged bouldering, building, caucasus, city, climbing, event, festival, fitness, fun, kids, life, rock, sakartvelo, scramble, sport, street, tbilisi, town
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Strawberries and Sugar
Reblogged from Making a Difference: Standing with my Georgian brother, Nika, in the middle of a neighborhood bebo’s strawberry field, picking strawberries barefoot in the mud, as a toothless woman empties a handful of the red fruit into my palms, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Family, Friendship, Georgian Life, Nature and Wildlife, and Seasons, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia)
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A Lesson in Pond Dipping
In preparation for our scientific research expeditions with Earthwatch from July onwards (fingers crossed), we have been taking our Oceans Ambassadors out and about into nature, especially now that winter is over and the school we were using has exams. … Continue reading
Posted in Earthwatch, Environment, Georgian Life, Nature and Wildlife, and Seasons, Oceans Project, Photos
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Writing Lesson Plan
Reblogged from Making a Difference: This ripped-from-the-headlines Lesson Plan has sort of developed over the last few months and I have found that in the chaotic and resource-deprived Georgian classrooms, it helps to calm the class, restore some order and … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia), Uncategorized
Tagged child, children, class, classses, co-teacher, education, english, esl, foreign, foreigner, format, georgia, georgian, kids, language, learn, lesson, plan, sakartvelo, size, student, system, teach, teacher, teaching, teenager, teens, tefl, tlg, volunteer, young people
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I extended my TLG contract! Here's why.
Reblogged from Making a Difference: The other day, one of my third graders (one of the four Giorgi’s in that class and about a hundred in the school) asked how long I would be staying at their school. “Until December,” … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia), Uncategorized
Tagged and, children, class, classes, contract, director, education, esl, extended, foreigner, georgia, georgian, here, kids, learn, lessons, letters, ministry, opportunity, plans, principal, programme, reform, sakartvelo, school, science, students, system, teach, teacher, tefl, tlg, why, with
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Medical Woes and "Woahs!"
Reblogged from Making a Difference: Having spent a lot of time in Georgia, I considered myself to be rather lucky that I have never had to enter a doctors office for any reason. Not solely because I am in Georgia and dealing … Continue reading
Posted in Georgian Life, Health and Fitness, TLG (Teach and Learn in Georgia), Uncategorized
Tagged avoid, back, brave, bridget, clinic, doctor, english, esl, expat, foreigner, georgia, georgian, hospital, killer, learn, lucky, medic, medical, muscle, nervous, pain, relaxant, sakartvelo, scared, seek, south african, spasm injections, teach, teacher, teaching, tefl, tlg, treatment, woahs, woe, woes
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