Day Four, More Classroom Adventures

Day 4 – Wednesday

Each day began with breakfast in the hotel restaurant. The fare was incredible, eggs anyway you wanted, meats of different kinds, fruit, yogurt, waffles, crepes, They played pleasant “European” music and generally made for a very pleasant start to the day. If you stay longer than a couple of days and exhibit some friendliness, I think the wait staff will engage you in conversation about their country. It happened to us.

At class that morning we began the day with discussion of Georgia/Russian relations. Talked about R’s intentions in Ossetia and Abkhazia, how this relates to Georgia. We talked about the recent Russina overflight of Georgian airspace. The Russians do it to say, “this is our part of the world and we can as we like!” Their thought is that the flights are not specifically against Georgia, but rather to show the world that they, Russia, can do as they please in this part of the world. I think they are right.

Moved into discussion of JSTARS, showed unclass brief and received much interest on J. Want to rent one.