The first day when the attacks started between Georgian and Abkhazian people, I was a kid in school and this was such a weird thing for me. I didn’t even know what the war was. I couldn’t dream that such strange things could ever happen. When you live with your parents in your house peacefully, and when suddenly one day everything changes, it is difficult. At that time, I was 18 years old and enrolled in university but hadn’t gone yet. I was very happy when I enrolled in university because you know that being a student is supposed to be one of the happiest moments in someone’s life and I was getting ready to go to university. So that period started very badly for me and for everyone who was living in Abkhazia. Everything changed in one day when we crossed the borders. We, displaced people, started living in families unfamiliar to us. For example, I personally lived in my father’s sister’s house as an IDP, and she was a very close relative and took care of me, still it was very difficult for me to live in someone else’s house. Just living with a different family was difficult for me because I lost everything, like material things. I lost property that my parents have worked their entire lives for. I would repeat one thing, that I would never imagine that I would have to leave my own house, continue life after fleeing my home, and living in a different family. It was unimaginable for me. Compared to your own family, living in your own relatives’ houses is still not easy. I started a new life, but it was very difficult as the country was also in a difficult situation politically, economically, and the war had just ended so the country was down. There was no electricity and you had to stand on queues just for bread. Not only IDP people underwent these hardships, but also local people because of the difficult conditions that had been created after the war in the country. Especially the first year of displacement was very difficult, and I was not able to go to Tbilisi. I was a student but I couldn’t manage to go to Tbilisi and continue my studies there. That was a great stress for me. It was so painful for me that I wasn’t able to continue my studies in Tbilisi, despite the problems I had lost everything, still it was a hope for me to get an education—at least one positive thing. There was no electricity and we were unable to watch tv programs, I wasn’t really into tv series and soap operas but we could watch some movies as a form of escapism during this period, but because there wasn’t any electricity, we couldn’t even do this. When we moved from our aunt’s house, we were given accommodation to live for some time, free of charge, and I was always thinking “Where am I living? Whose house is this?”. The home owners of this house were absolutely and totally unfamiliar to us. The owners passed away and their daughters were married and so we lived in their house for 17 years. Even during this time everyone had financial hardships, and still their parents helped us and I was able to go to Tbilisi to study. Student years are always related to financial hardships, and students are usually short on money, but still my years as a student were some of the happiest days of my life, despite my bad social background. I regret that I spent my most valuable years in the village where I had less opportunities or self-develop. My father always wanted me to live in the village and I did that, but I had less opportunities to develop myself. I wasn’t able to do anything good there in the village. The best years are when you are 20 or 25 years old, and these years were lost on me in the village. Years later, I was able to move to the city and develop into a more active citizen, and thanks to God I got a job and for everything that I have now. I think I could start improving myself at an earlier age but my father pushed me to stay in the village so I started it later. Because of my father’s suggestion to stay there, I lost these young years of my life. I am a very hopeful person. I hope that everything will be fine. I an Orthodox Christian and religious person. I believe in God, and that everything will be fine or as it should be. Everything will go so that life is better for me. Unfortunately, Georgia hasn’t only lost Abkhazia, but also Ossetia. I hope Georgia will able to unify its territories, and we will be a stronger nation, and we will love each other stronger. Of course, Russian politics is absolutely not acceptable for me, because what I have gone through is the result of Russian politics, and so any people in the world are in bad situations because of them. But these politics don’t refer to ordinary people, but I am not really into the hostile relationship between any nations. All nations should live in peace and friendship, because loving each other will save our nations. I wish for a better future, and I believe that we will have one. Thank you, Kathryn for bringing these emotions to me in these interviews, I really retold the real situation. I couldn’t make up anything. Thanks for everything. I am so happy that I met such a nice girl.