I’m here to meet American English teaching assistants like me who are spending this school year living and working all across Europe, including quite a few who are teaching in nearby Russia.
This week’s travels brought my journey total to 13,285 miles. That’s the same distance as if I climbed to the top of the Empire State Building stacked on top of itself more than 48,375 times. Phew, I’m so grateful I had many different forms of transportation to help out my poor feet this past week!
Georgian buses, planes, and taxis— oh, my! This week I used almost every form of transportation imaginable on my way to Georgia. I drove to the local bus stop, took an hour-long bus ride to the Larnaca airport, flew two hours to a Georgian airport, and boarded a bus for a four-hour ride to the capital city, Tbilisi.
There in Tbilisi, I got to enjoy my favorite form of Georgian tourist transportation so far: an aerial cable car. Do you know what "aerial" means? It means what it sounds like: in the air. That's right, I got a bird's-eye view of Tbilisi, and you can, too, if you check out my photographs!
What's next on our itinerary? A funicular railway ride! Because what could be more fun than taking a funicular railway car up a steep mountain? I'll tell you: taking a funicular up a mountain with an amusement park at its summit. There, we'll board Tbilisi's famed ferris wheel to take in views of the sprawling city of over one million people. (That's approximately the population of the entire nation of Cyprus.) I can't wait!
