27 November, Friday.

Today I woke up so early because my friend and family started calling me from early morning, asking was I ready for guests and for preparing food. I think Georgian dishes are so popular here because I found a lot of restaurants in Kaunas and Vilnius. Maybe for tourists, the first things that come to mind when talking about Georgian dishes are Khachapuri and Khinkali. But I wanted to make something new and I decided to make eggplants with walnuts and Skmeruli- chicken with garlic sauce. There is one Facebook group- about dishes and I asked there, what to prepare for my guest. Because it is not so easy to find Georgian ingredients here. I mean, spices.

I went shopping with Gintare. And then, with huge responsibility and a lot of walnuts, I started preparing. I want to say thanks to my Georgian flatmate- Tamo, who helped me. everything went as I've planed, but the taste of the dishes was much better than I expected. When I tasted it, it was like my grandma used to cook. I felt proud. I'm a Gourmet person, and I think taste has really strong power- it can define your attitude about a country for example. For now, Lithuania for me tastes like Gintare's homemade balandeliai. for my guests, it was the first time to try Georgian dishes and I hope they found out new things about my country.

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 On weekends we went to Buktos Pažintinis Takas.it felt like we were going on a family trip or something like that. It was a really beautiful forest, near Marijampole. I wonder how beautiful it will be in the snow. I took a hundred or more photos there J I missed seeing new places because of this corona, I am only able to go to the parks and feed ducks there. By the way, there are 25 ducks in this lake, near the school and I already named them all. I feel like Holden Caulfield. Have you read that book? Catcher in the Rye. I think every teenager should read it because if you feel a little bit lost, you will know that there is Holden, who can become your best friend and you are not alone in this.

 I try to manage some things about my idea- a school magazine. Hope it will go well, I have some ideas and waiting for motivated students ^.^

 P.S. I found out a new thing about Marijampole: you have a sugar factory here, so that is why it smelled like fresh-baked eclairs or croissants in the mornings. I thought the problem was in me – in my addiction to sweets, but now I feel better about it.

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