A very remote mountain region, Svaneti empties its inhabitants who have gone in search of a better life in the city. The evacuation did not spare Kala, a village located at an altitude of 2,000 meters. Only 17 students attended, an event that worried the principal of the school. Here, due to shortage of teachers, specific subjects such as English can no longer be taught.
The subject taught by Lana Dvalishvili is English. When he answered the invitation of the Georgian Ministry of Education to join the local school, English was an attractive language for most of the local population. But times are changing. Although the harsh winters and the distance separating her from family and town sometimes make her depressed, Lana fights on. Are families or schools short of money? No problem, she uses her salary or savings to buy books and textbooks. The author is in the Kala Hills in his fourth winter. She knows that as long as she has children, as long as they trust, love and learn from her, she will last.
Mariam, 18, is the top of her class and relies on her good command of English to pass university entrance exams in the capital, Tbilisi. As for Luka, 7 years old, the youngest, Lana Duvalishvili has been following him since CP.
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