WARNING: Osh (along with most of southern Kyrgyzstan) is currently experiencing severe ethnic violence related to the country’s recent regime change. It is not considered safe for tourism at the present time. – Wikitravel Farrell and I went to Osh for two days last week on a business trip (along with neighbor Carl and his …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Good Prof, Bad Prof
Teaching class was a bit rough these past two days. There were the usual complaints on my end; the cold morning chill, a damp sneaker I mistakenly navigated into a puddle in the dark, out of breath from scaling four flights of stairs at once, a creeping head cold, and, of course, a general haze …
House Hunters International
Thanks to this lovely blog, I was contacted by a TV production company and asked if Farrell and I would like to (possibly) be featured on an episode of House Hunters International! Yes Yes Yes! So, we whipped up a casting video to show just how picturesque Bishkek can be on a dreary February day. …
Operation Lada
Hello, February in Kyrgyzstan! We got a tease of spring with one sunny day in the high 40s (err… 7 or 8 degrees C?), but as of this morning we were hurled back into the throes of the harsh (post-)Soviet winter. I was bundled up in my office (aka, the couch) working on my lesson …
another friday night
Carl finished speaking with the cab driver and hesitated a moment before he told us, “He said this street ends here,” where we’re standing, “and starts again over there,” across the highway and behind the railway tracks. It was dark, it was cold, it was muddy, and I had no idea what we were looking …