plugging along

Hey all. Sorry I am have been a big lazyass in the posting department. Things have gotten pretty mundane here, I go to school, have no idea whats going on, teach some classes, and go home. One of the teachers really doesn't like me (although she insisted I teach her class... go figure) and she makes that pretty well known. Everyone else seems to like me alright, and I think the students do too (and aren't they the only ones who matter anyway).
Its getting colder here, so now my family is going mental bottling everything we need to eat over the winter. Which seems to mostly consist of obscene amounts of ketchup... perhaps that is a warning as to the numbers of potatos i will be eating in the winter months. I think we have enough ketchup to eat a bottle a day... seriously. Also, I thought they were trying to poison us all, but it turns out they put Asprin in the ketchup as a preservative... interesting huh? Isn't that bad for you? I don't know, but I guess we won't have any headaches this winter either. So everyone keeps asking me why I suck so much at this language, and here is a brief explanation about the insanity that is Georgian language.

1) the verbs are WACKY!!!! Basically if you can't master georgian verbs, you can't really speak the language at all. Many verbs have 66 forms. Seriously, 66 forms, and sometimes, they sound NOTHING like any of the other ones. Take for example, the verb "to give". It is not only different depending on who the subject is, it changes based on the object to. Plus they have special forms for using it as a comand, or with a model verb. Sometimes they follow a pattern.. sometimes not so much. Throw in past present and future of all of these and you have lots and lots of forms that sound only slightly similar. You basically just have to memorize them. Insanity.

2)The language has insane letters. There is T and t. K and k. There are multiple sounds that resemble choking which I cannot type in English letters, and there are letter combinations like tz, ts, dz, which really all sound the same. Plus half the time they have like 4 letters in a row that don't include vowels- like vmgzavrob (I travel).

3) they don't use articles... which confuses me.

4) they don't have prepositions, they have post-positions.

5) time telling... its the most absurd. 4:45 is translated into "the 5th hour lacks 15 minutes". 3:15 is "the fourth hour has 15 minutes." What the heck is that crap?

Okay, so thats your little intro to the georgian language. dzallian dznelia. me vstzavlob, magram me var dzallian nela da me ar momtsons laparaki. (It is very difficult. I study, but I am very slow and I don't like to speak). Oh, and Andrew is visiting me soon! YAY! It will be fun to have a visitor, so long as my family doesn't go mental over my lack of baking for him (long story).