Today, I woke up at about 9:00 AM. Then I had a meeting with the community director about one project. Then I had pineapple juice, yogurt, muscat and grape lemonade that I bought yesterday, and cheese on bread for breakfast.

Today’s breakfast

It was very tasty. After that, I felt sleepy after a bit, so I took a nap and slept for about 2 hours. The place I live in now is underground, so it’s hard for light to get in, which probably makes me tired more easily. I got up, sorted out my hair, and decided to go to a restaurant that Constantin recommended me before.

Let’s go to Mapshallia, the local restaurant that everyone knows in Georgia!

Finally, there was no one there, so I could go in. The waitresses were mostly grandmothers, and it looked like a very local restaurant. When I entered there and looked at the menu, it was not expensive at all, but rather cheap. So it was really great to be able to eat such delicious food at such a reasonable price. I ordered a soup called Kharacho, water, three Cheese Dumplings, and Khachapuri Imeruli! It was so good!

Soup Kharacho. Quite spicy.

The portions were too large to eat, so I was given a bag to take home. There seemed to be a Russian person at the same table as me. He, too, ordered soup, water, and juice. I wondered if he had escaped from the war because he didn’t like it. I wished I had had the courage to say something to him, but I couldn’t. He was looking at a map, and I was sure he was looking at a Russian map. So I guessed he must have come from Russia and didn’t know much about Georgia. But when I was ordering in Russian, he looked at me, so I guess he was surprised. I wish I could have talked to him somehow, but it seems I couldn’t. I should be braver and talk to him. Chances don’t come around that often, so make the most of them and be brave enough to talk to them. You have nothing to lose. But I lost that chance this time.

Not having money, omg.

Something happening then. While I was eating that, I wondered if this restaurant accepts credit cards. I was a little worried about that. So I was anxiously eating, but the Russian guy who was eating at the same table as me was paying by lari, so I wondered if perhaps they don’t take cards. I started to get a little worried and tried to envision a scenario of what would happen in that case. I wondered if the young clerk would lead me to the bank and tell me. Something like that. And that would be true. When I see the menu again, it is written that “No cards, only cash”. So I said in Russian, I don’t have any lari now, so I need to go to the bank. So a young guy nearby asked me, do you have an internet bank in Georgia? “No, I don’t”. And I decided to leave my passport on that restaurant and he explain the direction of the bank. But I lost track of it on the way there, so he guided me to the bank and helped me to withdraw the money. I thought this was a miracle because it was exactly the scenario I had envisioned. Basically, things usually don’t turn out the way I imagined, so it was a real surprise to see it actually turn out the way I had imagined.
On the way home, I withdrew 20 lari from the bank, and on the way back to the store, we talked about how this restaurant is very famous. I told him that it was really popular because it was really local and the prices were not expensive. That’s how I arrived there and paid 16 lari in exchange for my passport and received 4 lari in change. It was coins. That kind of thing. It’s really hard to make a living now because it’s super inflated and very expensive, and the Japanese yen and lari are in a mess. I can’t say it’s cheap at all. It’s a strange time to be here, but it’s an experience and part of life, so I have to enjoy it anyway. Let’s just go for it. Then I went back to the bank, withdrew about 180 lari again, and went home.

Georgia wine is very sweet.

Then I ate dinner and did some programming. I also drank some wine today. The wine I bought at the supermarket yesterday is called BADAGONI, and the wine variety is called ALAZANI VALLEY.

Georgia wine. Very sweet.

It’s a white wine, but it’s very sweet. I really think it’s a very Georgian wine. Then, I’m writing diaries and programming my owned media!