As several people have pointed out to me lately, I've been slacking on my blogging. My apologies! And I really don't have a very good excuse because as of the beginning of May we have internet at my school! It is currently only to one computer in our resource room, but it is certainly a start! The resource room opened in April. We opened it with a week and a half long open house where kids and teachers could come and learn the rules of how to borrow books and sign up for computer classes. Then we had a big party on April 24 where students, teachers, important members of the village, and directors of other nearby schools came to have tea and celebrate the opening of the room. Since then I have been working super hard to open the room for 20 hours each week (in addition to my normal teaching schedule!), 12 of those hours are spent teaching computer classes. Ever since coming to Azerbaijan I have realized that I am maybe not the most patient person in the world but my god, teaching computers is a real eye-opener. I recommend sainthood for anyone who can successfully teach people (especially adult teachers) to use a computer from scratch without losing their cool. I'm doing my best, but I cannot tell you how exhausted I am all the time now! So what do I do when I go home? Watch way too much television! I've recently watched everything that I can get ahold of: several seasons of "Big Bang Theory", Season 3 of "The Unit", and most recently I started watching all the seasons of "Friends". I'm currently on season 3 and I got so upset last night when I watched Ross and Rachel break up that I had to stop watching and go work out to let off steam...I take this as a sign that I am watching enough TV to internalize it as my own life...I think I'm going to try to work on that haha... Luckily school will be ending soon (our "Son Zəng" which means "Last Bell" and is what we call graduation, will be on May 31st) and then it will be summer! I'll be sprinting to the finish giving final exams in all my classes and trying to start a new round of computer classes, but I think I can get it all done! And then once summer arrives, my sister will be coming to visit! Miss Kimberly Farrell is expected in Azerbaijan on June 8th, so get ready!
Despite all of the busy, busy work that I have been doing lately, I have had the time for one little vacation up to Qax where my saintly friend Lori was nice enough to host a whole bunch of volunteers for the twice annual pilgrimage to the local Georgian church. It was really interesting, I've never seen a celebration like it in Azerbaijan. We all hiked up this little mountain to a church and lit candles and walked around the church three times. Some of us did it barefoot (I'll proudly say I actually did it barefoot twice, thank you very much). And then at the bottom of the mountain everyone lays out super intense picnics, sometimes even rigging tables and stuff. We made delicious pork kabobs (mmm). Luckily we had beautiful weather too, so it was a very delightful day, and a nice break from school! (*note* If you look down at my March 30 post, the picture of my dad and me was taken in front of the pilgrimage church looking out over the Qax and Şəki regions)
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