I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough? Some may stumble, but not you, on hiccough, thorough, slough, and through? So now you are ready, perhaps, to learn of less familiar traps? Beware of heard, a dreadful word, that looks like beard, but sounds like bird. And dead, it’s [...]
All posts for the month September, 2011
English Spellings (a poem)
Posted by Molly on September 30, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/english-spellings-a-poem/
Another Kartuli Music Video
Because I haven’t put up a song for a while, and couldn’t remember the name of the one I was actually looking for (I do think it’s lovely, though):
Posted by Molly on September 28, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/another-kartuli-music-video/
Light in August
It seemed to [Joe Christmas] as he sat there that the yellow day contemplated him drowsily, like a prone and somewhat somnolent yellow cat. (p112) I finished reading Light in August yesterday. There’s a sense in which I understand it well enough — I reckon I could discuss it in class well enough, and sort [...]
Posted by Molly on September 28, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/light-in-august/
English Class
I have a lovely schedule, though scattered nearly as much as last year — children have English class three times a week, except for 1st and 2nd, who we see twice a week. I am with two co-teachers, one of them for 1-5 and sometimes 12 grades, and the other for 6th, and sometimes 10-11 [...]
Posted by Molly on September 27, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/english-class/
Visitors, part 2
Tuesday morning I walked into a movie theater and unexpectedly ran into 42 Alaskans from the St Innocent Academy came to Gori, and I’ve been following them around for the past five days; staying the night with them at the Nikozi monastery, then visiting cultural events, monasteries, and supras with them during the day. They’re [...]
Posted by Molly on September 18, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/visitors-part-2/
Protected: Meeting
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Posted by Molly on September 18, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/meeting/
Visitors!
That was an excerpt from a shadow play I saw last night. I don’t have time to write now, but the last few days have been fascinatingly crazy, traveling about with the St Innocent Academy from Kodiak and Bishop Isaiah from Nikozi.
Posted by Molly on September 16, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/visitors/
Moving
This morning I took a marshutka from Adigeni at half past eight, and got off on the road to Gori three hours later, where I was met by my new host family. There is a father, who works in the army, a mother, a teenage son who knows decent English, and a young adult daughter [...]
Posted by Molly on September 10, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/moving/
Chule
For my last free day in Adigeni I went on a long walk to the monastery of Chule, which is about 6 k up into the hills from town. It’s a long walk, with a long boring incline on a terrible, rock infested road, but at about half way there’s a turn-off onto a smaller, [...]
Posted by Molly on September 10, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/chule/
Kartuli Ena
There’s an old tradition among Western students of beginning the study of a new language by reading the Gospel of John in that language. I think it’s a beautiful tradition, and intend to give it a try. Incidentally, the third person “was” in Georgian is იყო, and “word” is სიტყვა. That’s “eeko” and “seetkva” respectively, [...]
Posted by Molly on September 5, 2011
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/kartuli-ena/
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I’m a young Orthodox woman living and teaching in the Republic of Georgia. I write about places I’ve been, books I’ve read, and thoughts on whatever seems interesting at the time. The password is my saint name.
