The Death of a Pig
OK, so this post was going to be a long winded post about how I rediscovered my inner vegeterian, but I just slipped on the ice on the way to buy a pack of Georgian ciggies and my back is killing me, so anyways
You see that little piggy on the left there?
He got slaughtered
before my eyes, I've skipped all the pics of his long bloody death rattle, followed by the long drawn out carving of him up(after being moved to a different location)
but I think this was one of blood on the snow just says something else or
this one of Leo, Nugo's father holding up the pig's head, this old timer was born during WW2, to a war widow, the last of 9 children, but she lived into her 80s.
Now Leo took an immeadiate disliking to me becuase of my German last name, given some German killed his Mama(thats Georgian for father, I know, how crazy is that!) during the battle of Stalingrad whilst he was still in his Deda's(Deda is Georgian for mother, yes, I know, its all backwards here) womb.
However, after drinking enough wine with him and toasting to their victory in "The Great Patriotic War" he seems OK with me now.
Oh yeah, more about the pig, while they were carving him up
His parents looked on from the other side of the fence, this moment was a little heart breaking for me and when
Giorgi showed me some of the meat he was going to cook, I swore to myself I would not eat any of poor Mr Piggy! Even though, I had not eaten since the night before, I was cold, and we had trekked 6 km up to an altitude of about 1400 m. However, once
the pork was cooking over the hot coals, Mr Piggy was transformed to something delicious smelling that I just had to eat, and I did, a lot of him.
None of Mr Piggy went to waste though, there are still jars and jars of him here in one of the buildings, eventually all that was left was his
bones...
ps: Look, to me, its brutal here in many ways, but its all tempered by necessity, I mean I would not want to live like this for more than a year, but it has already been an eye opening experience for me. Still, I will try and make my next post(whenever that may be) more uplifting, cheers!
pps: Did not know if I was going to be able to make this post, the high speed access is about to go anytime now.