2 months of without a word!
Sum up:
*University started. Mondays 3 hours Abkhazian, Fridays 3 hours Russian! Does anyone believe I can learn any of these languages in that limited hours of courses. Well I dont! Thats why we have started the necessary procedures to change it! Details, later as progress occurs...
*I am going to (was going to) Dance group Diaskurya- the universities caucasian dance ensemble! Got a hit on my ankle! Got a conference, got another conference, got a disantheria, got a cold, got a neck problem, and now have got new Abkhazian courses at the same time! God I really wanted to make it, but the truth is, I was a disaster.... Many girls came in, be part of the group the next practice... I could never make it...
*Many new repatriat families arrived. Good cases for me as I will study repatriation. More of it the Abkhaz Abaza People's Congress started Abkhazian course for them, which takes place every day of the week, where they learn songs and poems together with the alphabet, writing, reading, grammer- whatever you need for learning a language, which I also now attend!!! Also, they are fun, they are joy and they cook good!!! Well they could only recently find houses for rent (since they have not been provided any accomodation other than the Abkhazia hotel that I had stayed before, by the government) and one family is still in the hotel... but I was their guest today for a late breakfast (where I tested my Russian by speaking with a tenant-neighbour) and for dinner where they cooked traditional Adyg food: Ships. Mmmm delicious....
*We had two conferences- pictures of the later below- first the 1st Conference named after Shalva Inal-ipa (the abkhaz historian-etnograph) and second the Circassian Academia conference- an internet communication group and network, which we realized with a lot of effort! Details later!!! I presented my thesis in the later, and my work published before in Turkish on the "name giving traditions of Adyghe-Abkhaz in Adapazari-Duzce region of Turkey". My presentation was translated from English to Russian simultaneously.
*there was a long lecetric problem due to a trafo crash down in Abkhazia. We had 2 hours of electricity and two hours of darkness for some days and it was everywhere really cold!!!!
*I do not have a heater so my house is still cold though today the problem was fixed!!!
*Atilla Tsugba and Hayri Kutarba become my neighbours: and well they are a lot of help in many things like: I have washed two many clothes and today is a day without a rain so can I hang some clothes to your balcony, or I need help with this gas oven, or they need help with a only russian speaking master who came for fixing something!!! It is great to have so many people around!!!
*Many else to say but I am afraid this problematic blogger will not work! So Thats all for now! And by the way: I have also been part of this FaceBook craziness going around. But that takes too much of my time that I spent on the internet. So maybe it is better for me to forget that there is such a thing- and there I have so many friends that I have not talked for ages, that do not know where I have been, or what I have been doing, and very likely where in the world is Abkhazia... Well I know there are many others too that are interested in Abkhazia and ----I wish internet will be cheaper and faster soon!
