Peanut Butter Time

I just opened the jar of peanut butter my friend gave me here in Georgia. There are no words for how much I love it. I'm really liking Georgian foods, but sometime you need a little bit of home. As it turns out peanut butter taste like America. If you didn't know America tasted like anything now you do. I used this little bit of home to make No-Bake Cookies as I listened to country music from the 90's. I had my host Mom's grandchildren help me make them, so there were lots of spills. Just like when I was young helping my Mom. It really is the little things that can make a day. Once again I love peanut butter.
That's all.

Three weeks of PST.

Hi Friends,
So it has been a little bit without a blog post from me. Sorry about that. There has been a lot going on
 these last few weeks.I found out where I will be spending the next two years of services. It's a town called Poti. It is a port city on the Black Sea. I was able to meet my counter parts and host family on a three day stay and am really looking forward to getting started with my service. Poti is about 4.5 hours away from where I'm living now. I will move there full time in July. I'm sad to be leaving my PST family and to be leaving my cluster group (the group of Peace Corps people who live in your village), but I think it will be a good change for me. Right now we spend about 8 hours a day with the same group of people, there are only 4 people in my cluster and we have become very close. I'm going to miss them like crazy for sure. We go to IOD training most days with the other 16 people in our program. It is a really great group to be in and it will be hard to not see them all the time. There a days when we don't go to IOD because we are working on projects in our villages or have other things going on, and when we all get back together it's like we are long lost friends who haven't seen each other in years, unlike the truth that we haven't seen each other in two days. I can't imagine what it will be like when we haven't seen each other all winter. Being all the way on the west side means there will be people I will only see at conferences and big meetings.
I was also able to go to a place called Akhaltsikhe. It was a fun trip with some girls from the Peace Corps. We stayed in a guest house, to get a good idea of what it was like think a high school sleep over but with all 20 somethings. Good times is all I can say. The city is very cool and the high light for tourist is the castle. P.S. Akhaltsikhe literally means "new castle". The castle is amazing and we had a great day looking around and taking photos. As always the goal is to get one good "profile" photo for everyone. Because it's not fun unless everyone on social media knows about it, and that's how I live my life. Deal with it.  
I was also able to go to a place called Uplistsikhe. It is an ancient cave city near Gori. Everyone went on job shadowing in different cities around the country and I got Gori. There are some really amazing volunteers working in Gori right now and they were nice enough to show us around their jobs/city. One afternoon we went to Uplistsikhe and got to run around. It is so cool. I didn't take my camera that day, so enjoy these photos taken by one of the volunteers iphone.
The last cool thing I've done is hiking to Saint George Gori Jvari Church on the hill next to my village. I went with my host mom and we had a great time. It is a long hike, for my Utah friends think the Y but longer. We went at 11 in the morning, so I was hot too, but nothing can out do the view from the church. You can see the whole valley from there. Our whole world right now is this one little valley and from up there it really does look small.
So that's everything you've missed out on the last few weeks. I hope you enjoyed it, I will try to write again soon. If there is anything you want to read about on this blog feel free to write it in a comment and I will try to write a post about it for you. Thanks for reading.
 
Events listed in this blog post are in no real order. Just so you know.