The Seminar: Preparation

On October 1st we organized a seminar for Kazbegi people. We were really busy traveling around before that, and I came back to Kazbegi only 4 days before the seminar. Since the seminar was our own initiative and nobody from our partner organization - the municipality - seemed to show any interest care about it, we had to inform the Kazbegi people about the fact that the seminar is going to take place.

So we went to municipality hoping that maybe they can prepare and print the announcements today and post them in Kazbegi and surrounding villages the next day. As we arrived to municipality, it turned out that they have no electricity at the moment. However, we were told that announcements will be still printed today and also posted today. They used a typing machine to prepare the posters. Even two - one of them typed blue and the other one black. "GLEN" had to be written by hand, since the machine had only Georgian letters.

So far so good. Next day I called our contact person in the municipality to find out how it was going with the posters, and she said: "We already have them in 3 villages around Kazbegi. We posted them in Kazbegi yesterday as well, but this morning they were gone. But now we are making nicer ones on a computer, since now we have electricity and they will be posted within an hour". We also managed to spot some of the posters :)