I'm a teacher!

I guess I've been a teacher for a month, so that's long enough that I can start calling myself a teacher and not some poser who sits and watches the classes. I like to think that I've gotten into the swing of lesson planning and all that... though I will say, teaching is really hard. I may go find all my ex-teachers when I get back to the US and express this sentiment of shared frustration with them.

I'd like to discuss the tension with Russia, but it's kind of a political thing that I'd rather not express public opinions for all of posterity to read... but if you'd like to hear it from me, call me! You got my number.

Oh, that too

I neglected to mention in my last post, due to a Weird Al-induced haze, that I met Georgia's president Mikhail "Misha Dawg" Saakashvili on Friday. I had two other friends there, and we got let into this stadium opening early, and then Misha showed up with an entourage of reporters and such. At first, he noticed us and looked like he wanted to say hi, but he was swept away to the next photo op by reporters. Not to be outdone, me and my fellow political groupies stood in his path again for when he came back, and that time he saw us and shook our hands and said "Nice to meet you" in English (he studied at Columbia U in NYC for a bunch of years). I was euphoric. In hindsight, perhaps we should have used his title when shouting for his attention instead of shouting "Hello Saakashvili!" Can you picture someone shouting "Hello Bush!" Kind of rude. But I guess it got the job done. AWESOME.

The most excellent update ever

So I suppose I could say something about school or about the 5K walk/run for breast cancer this weekend, but I'd rather post this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmGckhyPapc

because I feel it best represents my life, and because I feel that will seal my place as nerdiest PCV in G6.