February 16

The children's clothes and books arrived from Genette in London and we have asked Peace Corps to retrieve them from customs for us. Thus turned out to be quite an undertaking and "cost" a lot more than we expected. the customs fees seem to be arbitrary and unpredictable. Finally they were collected and stored at Peace Corps on February 19.


February 27

We met for lunch with four guys from the European Union Monitoring Mission who were interested in the IDP situation in Borjomi. We agreed to take them to Gill's school and the IDP housing in Likani sometime in the near future.

Gill has been sick for two weeks now with some "magari kartuli virusi". She has not been to school, but Marina has been looking after her with some of her many nostrums. Today, it involves painting a grid with iodine on Gill's back and chest. I too have been sick, but not sick enough to warrant that treatment!


March 3

We have had 10 cm of snow, but we are none-the-less, off to Tbilisi today to collect the clothes and books from Peace Corps.


3/9/2009
We met the four guys from the European Union Monitoring Mission again today and, as promised, we took them to Gill's school and the IDP housing in Likani. They were shocked at the conditions in both places and undertook to include these places in their report. We'll see!