Wednesday, November 19, 2008

We went to the ambassador's house for a reception. A lot of Peace Corps and ex-Peace Corps folks were invited, so it was good to see people again. Number 2 wife did not attend.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Another day with the IDPs.

Preparing for the day's activities.

Gill took the younger IDPs to a puppet show in the local theatre. Tiko, Dmitri and I took the older ones to Khashuri for the football match against the Khashuri IDPs.

Puppet show audience.

Puppet show audience.

We rented a bus for the Khashuri bash. They just would not sit still! In the end we just gave up.

Dmitri coaching!

The fan club!

One of the matches. We lost both matches:
one 11-1 and the other 4-2.

Team tea!

On the bus back to Borjomi.

Monday, November 24, 2008

We attended a children's concert in Borjomi. It was very "patriotic" with many references to Georgia and freedom and explicit refernces to Russia as the invader. It was very good and Borjomi clearly has a lot of talent. Actually, the preformers were mostly from #1 School, so the talent base was quite small.

Older children.

Younger children.