My Khashuri home and hosts

Gamarjoba. I have been in Khashuri almost two weeks now and it feels like home already. I attend classes each day with four other students. No way to goof off! Here are some pictures of my host home and family.

 Here is Tamriko and Gocha, a very nice couple

Here is the kitchen at breakfast with "babea" grandma Nellie and daughter Marie , a graduate student in auditing. Tomika, Mom on the right, is school librarian, and owns a magazina (small convenience shop) AND wakes up each morning at 4am to cook for school lunch program.  Did I mention they are hardworking people.  They obviously have the entreprenurial bug, but they don't undercut each other in business. Interesting.  Dad owns a car shop attached to their house - very handy.

 Here is own home, really nice and relatively renovated, from my understanding.

Here is  the bathroom. Very nice. 

Here is the garden. These grape vines are very old, planted by the grandfather. I did mention that they have great wine?!  They have vats in the garage to keep me, I mean us, quenched until fall harvest - probably 100 liters worth!  :-).