Midnight Plane To Georgia By E.C. Sheedy - FictionDB. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres, and time period. W e are on the midnight plane to Georgia. In various stages of inebriation, me and Dave WhatsApp this to our grown-up children. It’s not our fault. Nothing ever is. Our Georgian Airways flight. Midnight Plane to Georgia. June 15, 2015 January 9, 2017. feetfirst. We crossed four borders in two weeks. Travelling by train, bus, thumb, on foot and finally.

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Where I am now: a training center in the countryside outside of Tbilisi

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After 13 hours in airports and 11 hours on airplanes, I have arrived in Georgia! We landed in Tbilisi just after 3am on Tuesday, April 21st, meaning that I did actually get to ride a midnight train plane to Georgia.

Before I left for Georgia, I had to field all sorts of questions about my future home, the most common of which went something along the lines of, “Wait- the Peace Corps operates in Georgia? That’s so weird, I thought the Peace Corps was an international thing.” Yes, it’s true: there are indeed two Georgias. The lovely, peach-filled southern state and the tiny country on the border of Russia. Most of us know a thing or two about the first one, but very few us of (including myself, up until a few months ago) know much about the country. So, let’s talk about Georgia!

Bowmaster app. – First off: Georgia is tiny. There are about 4.5 million people living in Georgia, approximately 1.5 million of whom live in Tbilisi, the capital. That means that Georgia’s population is about half that of New York City’s. The country covers almost 27,000 square miles, which makes it just slightly larger that West Virginia. Or, to put it another way, 2.8 Vermonts could fit inside of Georgia.

– There are two “breakaway regions” in Georgia. Abkhazia, which is located in the northwest of the country, and South Ossetia, which is in the north. Both regions are strictly off limits for all Peace Corps volunteers and together make up about 20% of Georgia’s territory. (More on the history and political situation of these regions later).

– Georgia was a part of the Soviet Union from 1921-1991. In 2003 the Rose Revolution forced then President Shevardnadze to resign. Mikheil Saakashvili won the Presidency in the post-revolution elections, and went on to lead the Georgian government until 2013. The current President of Georgia is a man named Giorgi Margvelashvili, who was voted into office in the first ever peaceful transfer of power in recent Georgian history.

– The Georgian language has its own entirely unique alphabet with 33 letters and 7 cases. There are only 17 alphabets in the world, so it is pretty cool that Georgian claims one of them all to itself. In a classification of world languages on a scale of 1-4 (1 being the easiest for English-speakers to learn and 4 being the most difficult), Georgian is in group 3. One of the reasons that Georgian is so hard for English speakers to master is because of its consonant clusters. In English, we can have up to 3 consonants in a row in any one word. In Georgian, it is possible to have 7.

The Georgian alphabet from http://bit.ly/1Ehss5u

For example, try to pronounce mtsvrtneli(which means coach or trainer) without choking on your tongue…

– The Peace Corps has been operating in Georgia since 2001, and my group of volunteers is the 15th to serve in the country.

Exciting developments. – There are currently 86 Peace Corps Volunteers in Georgia (not including our group of trainees, which has 58 members)

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– The Peace Corps is currently operating in 65 countries, but it has at one time or another been in 140 countries. After President John F. Kennedy formed the Peace Corps in 1961, the first country to have a group of volunteers was Ghana.

Finally, I thought it might be nice if y’all learned some Georgian alongside me, if only for solidarity’s sake. Your first word is ღვინო, pronounced “ghvino” (the “gh” sound is like a French “rrr,” a guttural noise in the back of your throat). “Ghvino” means wine in Georgian, and according to my language teacher, the word for wine in every other language derives from this Georgian word. Since Georgia is the original wine country (sorry, Napa Valley), this seems only fitting.

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I hope you stayed with me to the end of this post. If you have, your reward is a little bit of Gladys Knight. ‘Cause we could all use a little more soul in our lives.