Georgia week 2: Time to start the work!

Another week flew by like a short minute and finally we started working in Kutaisi Campus Lions Club (by the way, our boss is super cool!!). But that doesn't mean we didn't have time to have fun.

When we came to work, we agreed to do some lectures about PR and how it is used, so we started preparing them. Before we actually started we did some interviews to get to know the participants. It was so surprising for me that some people who were studying in university did not know how to speak in English. So that meant we had to get a translator - and leading trainings that way made me feel like I'm in a conference. We got a group of very motivated people who were listening to us very attentively and taking notes.

This week we got a tour around the city again. Mind you, the city is REALLY not that big, so the whole tour took I think a bit more than an hour. And most of the time it took just to walk from one place to another and not hearing stories about the sights. But on the weekend we've seen so many sights - we've been to Martvili canyon and it was so beautiful there! Of course, some of us nearly fell while climbing down towards the place we could swim, but it was worth it. People from hot countries were shivering from the water, but it was around 16 degrees! That's normal swimming water! Not for them apparently. So that day we went around Samogrelo and the next we went to see some lakes and mountains. Now, I come from a country which is flat like a pancake, so mountains for me is something wow. I think I said like fifteen times "we don't have this in my country" that day while pointing at mountains.

We also got a new roommate this week and she also doesn't sleep at night, which means my sleep regime is completely ruined now. On the bright side, I taught other people the card game Durnius (Durak) so if we run out of talks (which is very rare) we just play it. Also, all of the interns just spend a lot of time together, either eating out in the evening, dancing in the park or at home, just being a little crazy. This week one of the interns had a birthday, so everybody was singing happy birthday in their languages, telling about their birthday customs. One time we also made fruit salad together, and let me tell you - the fruit here are dirty cheap. I have never paid so little for such tasty fruits. But it's weird that they only have seasonal fruits - like you can't find strawberries, grapes, oranges because they just don't have it. You can't really even find them in supermarkets.

Kutaisi is really a small town and after this time we kind of feel like locals here - we know the most important streets and we don't really get lost anymore. It just seems that in this city everybody knows everybody. Which is such a strange concept for me - I'm used to being a stranger in your hometown - everybody goes around their daily lives, not really caring about everybody else, but it's different here.

I wonder what will week 3 bring.