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Monthly Archives: February 2011

a trip to Osh, part 1

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 …

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Posted byKirstinFebruary 27, 2011Posted inKyrgyzstan, photo post, travelsTags: Osh

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 …

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Posted byKirstinFebruary 18, 2011Posted indaily life, Kyrgyzstan, ramblingsTags: teaching in Kyrgyzstan

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. …

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Posted byKirstinFebruary 15, 2011Posted inHouse Hunters InternationalTags: video

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 …

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Posted byKirstinFebruary 9, 2011Posted indaily life, Kyrgyzstan, photo postTags: quirky things

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 …

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Posted byKirstinFebruary 5, 2011Posted indaily life, KyrgyzstanTags: events in Bishkek

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