Vani, Georgia

Vani - Georgia

The Statistics.....

Days Travelled: 24

Lowest Temperature: -5 Celsius (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) 

Injuries:

•  Bruised behind from falling down a flight of stairs. 
• Incredibly sore lower back (I think it may also be from the fall)
• Bruises along my shoulders from carry my backpack long distances

Countries Visited: Four

Cities Visited: Nine

Modes of Transport: 5 (plane, bus, train, taxi and fiat (caught a lift with a Canadian driving though Croatia)

Border Crossings: Eight

Number of Beds Slept in: 10

Current Location: Niš, Serbia 

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Next Destination: Podgorica, Montenegro or Pristine, Kosovo.

Four Months in Georgia.


I got really lazy when it came to writing about my Georgian escapades, so I have given up on that for now. I have promised myself as of tomorrow I will make more effort to write about my travels because I am loosing my mind and if I don't I will forget.


So here is a video I created: Four months of Georgia in a three minute song.


Music : British India - March Into the Ocean

....and sometimes your bored

After spending three hours de-husking corn your mind starts to drift.  I had called everyone I felt like talking to. I had sent many text messages in the hopes of evoking a reply, but after a while nothing.

As a keep saying to my sister, life is different here for us village folk. (Never in my life did I think I would refer to myself as village folk- I'm not particularly enjoying though.) I got to my school, teach my three hours a day and then walk home and watch the chickens run around the yard.

Until I had the internet I was going into the town everyday just to break up the monotony, there is nothing to do in town. But if I walked I had a good hour to just listen to some music and think. But that is how I unintentionally hitch hiked.

I was walking along listening to some happening jams, when a small beige car started to slow down. I glanced at the car but didn't recognise it. The car then stopped next to me, I looked through the window and saw who I thought was my host father; I climbed in. Sitting in the back seat was a woman I had never seen before, I assumed she was a nighbour. I looked to the front and realised I did not know the man, he was not my faux father.  The couple smiled at me and asked "Rustavi" (a city at least 6 hours away) I shook my head and said "Senaki." The couple laughed at my obvious confusion. They drove me into town and wished me on my merry way. it wasn't until later that I realised 

• I had not told anyone where I was going.
• My phone battery was dying
• I didn't have my translation dictionary (my soul way of communicating with people.)

I spent a really long time talking to one of my friends back home about assassination.  It went for about an hour till we had both created a very detailed plan on how to murder someone should the situation arise.

That's when the boredom set in.