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TLG Flights

June 26, 2011 by

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Here are my thoughts on the TLG flight situation. These thoughts are my own and are not some sort of official position. First of all, I do acknowledge that it is very unfortunate that this whole situation happened. As many of us now know, this round of flights has been messed up in several ways. […]

Buckswood Summer School – Activity Leader Orientation

June 20, 2011 by

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On Tuesday we met at Republic Square – the area right in front of the Radisson Blu Iveria – at 13:00. With fourteen of us and all of our luggage, the minibus that came to take us to Tskneti was crowded. The driver took backstreets through Vake – past the school where President Saakashvili sends […]

Buckswood Summer School

June 18, 2011 by

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This summer, I’ll be working at the Buckswood School as an Activity Leader for Georgian students. Buckswood will have about 600 students this summer coming in four waves – each wave lasting three weeks and consisting of about 150 students. Each student at Buckswood won their spot through participating in Georgia’s academic Olympiad program. We […]

Natakhtaris Limonati ar Ginda?

June 13, 2011 by

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First of all, let’s just be clear: Limonati is not lemonade. On my third day in Georgia, I wandered around Tbilisi in the 100 degree heat with a group of four friends. We walked from Metekhti Church up to the Presidential Palace, then to Sameba and then back down the hill to a garden restaurant […]

New TLG Commercial

June 7, 2011 by

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Wow – I thought my school was good, but apparently Public School #1 in Tbilisi has invisible floating touch-screens lining the halls. I would love to learn chemistry in a holodeck. In all seriousness, though, this commercial ended up coming out really well. I think it’s cool and the CGI sequences are pretty sweet – […]

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