Trip 2015-16. Day 127. Georgia, Zugdidi. Грузия: Зугдиди
Within only a couple of days I went from a sense of total safety to one of absolute insecurity. First a local guy treated me badly. Then I got robbed and lost a significant amount of money. Traveling in Georgia, I now feel like I am a real daughter of the place – frustrated, lost and with a complete lack of direction. In Israel, as I know it, almost everyone thinks that he deserves something or is worth something. In Georgia the feeling of shame and meaninglessness prevails. The traditions are strong and even proud single caucasian men will let their sisters and mothers wash their socks and underwear. I got to know a man whose sister, hanging tens of socks to dry, told me “he doesn't wash them, he throws them away and we buy him new ones”. And she laughed... The widows don't let their sons exhaust themselves by doing any kind of housework and married women often say “men bring money and women should cook for them”. Their husbands and brothers and brothers-in-law and cousins an
