The fruit here is what I remember from the farm. Still don't care for the carrots and haven't seen green beans (thank you very much) but the Kiwi is great. Peaches are definitely not cing-free but accessible with a knife. They are delicous. Cereal is expensive but I love the Musilex so I don't care. The school cooks are phenominal and I plan to get all my basic needs met at noon. They cook/bake everything from scratch and also have snack breaks for the entire school. I think they call them studyhalls with food. Yes they take their food seriously here.
The last night of meetings we had a typical georgian supra. Started at 5:30 with bread and wine (also bottles of water and fizzy fruit drinks for those of us who can't keep up). Then they served us these small icecream-cone shaped cheese made of a thin slice of cheese rolled as a cone and filled with a creamy cottage cheese with mint filling. Also an eggplant like veg rolled around a walnut spread, trout fried with their heads on, and slabs of a soft, mild white cheese. Next course was pockets of bread filled with cheese and a wonderful green sauce made from berries found only in Georgia. Next course: mushroom grilled in their own sauce and something else I don't remember. Finally fantastic grilled chicken and b-b-q pork served in small peices. Somewhere in there two cow horns showed up for drinking the wine (one in my hand)! I tried it but by the time I got to the wine I was tilled almost horizontally so probably won't try that again. Their were many toasts through out the meal, towards the end I was toasting with an empty glass!
Some finished with vodka when the live music started. One player of the combo also serves as our band director at school. He can not speak a word of English but communicates some how so that the band is very good according to the heads of the school. Then a trio took stage who sang ballads. Couldn't understand a word but the Georgians around us were crying so it must have been sad. Reminded me alot of music I've heard in Mexico.
Next post will be on my experiences so far with drivers.
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