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Cheating in Georgian Schools

July 28, 2011 by

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I think it’s safe to say that everyone who has come to teach in a Georgian school has encountered cheating. Many of us have little teaching experience outside Georgia, however, as so we may not know how prominent cheating is in, for example, the US. Even if we do know how much cheating goes on […]

10 Reasons

July 24, 2011 by

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An article has been circulating again on my facebook feed: 10 Reasons to Keep Georgia on Your Travel List. It was written not too long after the conflict in 2008 and it presents an optimistic picture of visiting Georgia. Now, several years later, my friends and family still sometimes ask me about the conflict, about […]

Why does Georgia import Coca Cola from Azerbaijan?

July 22, 2011 by

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Yes, this is yet another beverage post. Given the popularity of the last one I thought it would be appropriate. By the time I had been in Georgia for three or four days, I noticed that Georgian Coca Cola makes me nauseous about ten to twenty minutes after I drink it. Georgian Pepsi is even […]

Georgia in the News: CNN Eye On

July 16, 2011 by

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CNN is currently profiling Georgia in its “Eye On” series. The series focuses on different countries that may not be well-known to CNN viewers. The coverage of Georgia is interesting to me because it shows not only an outside perspective on Georgia, but what an outside perspective thinks is newsworthy and interesting to English-speaking readers. […]

TBS -> MUC -> JFK

July 1, 2011 by

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Well, I made it to New York. One of the things that has happened to me over the last ten months is that I’ve started to show signs of being an international traveler. I have money in four currencies, appliances with different plugs and voltages, cell phones for different countries and transmission frequencies, and an […]

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