“I've thought many times that my whole personality and life path were determined by my own childhood traumas. I was a talented, open-minded, and curious child. I could absorb everything in the world and shine a bright light in return. I stood on the stage
Sopiko: "Tamuna was born in Svaneti. Her problem is directly related to the fact that we lived in the mountains and there wasn’t a rehabilitation center or a specialist who would diagnose Tamuna and prescribe treatment. After the injury during birth, she continued development with cerebral
Amputation ''About seven years ago, I fell on the handle of a carved door and was injured. I had a large hematoma on my hand, which was soon absorbed. Time to time the post-traumatic pain returned, though it didn’t bother me much, and moreover, as the
Before I turned 21, I spent 5 years in the USA – first I went there by FLEX, then I was given a scholarship and I stayed at the university. I've always been interested in activism in Georgia and I've been observing it from the
I’m a bisexual woman, co-founder of ‘’Tbilisi Pride’’ and LGTB queer activist. I was 13-14 years old when I first had a relationship with a woman. It was my first experience, but it was so weird and unacceptable that I ignored it in my mind, as
With the scholarship from the International Education Center, in September I went to Italy to study for my master's degree. I’ve been learning Italian from the first day since I arrived there. There were American students in the group with me, who, unlike me, we're
Introduction This story happened by an accident. I was 37 years old and working as a translator at a military base. Once in every six months, American Marines arrived in Georgia, and when one rotation arrived, they decided to go to an orphanage in Tbilisi, to offer
"If I didn't have my family, I wouldn’t know where or who I would be, I don’t even know what my name would be. I’m very lucky, that I had them in my life. I grew up in a big family. My grandmother was a teacher,
The Pandemic I remember nothing like this in my whole life. We were scared, but we were careful, did everything we were told and taught: we didn’t go outside, or anywhere, for that matter; we stocked up on so much pasta and rice that it will