GEORGIAN COUNTRYSIDE: I met these three about an hour outside Tbilisi when I stopped to buy cheese and fresh bread from them.
The woman on the right was baking bread inside at roadside building.
The woman on the left said she was the director of the local village school, which has 180 students. She started working there 41 years ago as a 17 year-old teacher.
The director said the school used to have more than 400 students, but people are leaving the village for the city (as is the case in most countries). I asked if she had any famous students. She said one of the current Georgian ministers attended the school.
The woman in the middle said her daughter died of illness several years ago and thus she wears black as a sign of mourning.
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- A Georgian woman making bread on the side of a road.
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- The bread cost about $0.3 for a loaf.
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- She was selling cheese made by local farmers.
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- The woman on the left is the village school director.
