(Since this is a rant, I’m posting photos of Kyrgyz babies to make us all feel better.) I’ve been busy. My pile of half-finished drafts, articles I’m working on, emails I have to write, and papers to grade is so high that it’s teetering like a drunken Jenga tower. Every day there’s a new pressing …
Monthly Archives: March 2011
earthquake in Bishkek
There was an earthquake last Friday, March 18th. Oh, did you not feel it? It wasn’t so big, but enough that as I was laying in bed at that moment, I could feel my bomb-shelter-esque concrete apartment building swaying and rocking. (After Friday, I don’t think I’ve ever received so many complements on the sturdiness …
a trip to Osh, part 4
(part 1, part 2, part 3) I already feel like a lifetime has passed since I went to Osh. It’s been a busy few weeks; busy in a wonderful, exciting, yay!-we’re-doing-big-things kind of way, and busy in a hectic, frustrating, oh-god-Farrell-might-get-thrown-in-jail(-again) kind of way. But we came to Kyrgyzstan to do big things, and big …
snapshots from Kochkor
On a complete whim, I went to Kochkor with friends for the Women’s Day three-day-weekend. (You see, Women’s Day fell on a Tuesday this year, but for some reason, Kyrgyzstan felt it was still necessary to place it on a three-day-weekend. Solution? Saturday became a working day. I really do appreciate public holidays in Kyrgyzstan.) …
a trip to Osh, part 3
(part 1, part 2) Food. I was told it would be better in Osh, because the Uzbeks are renowned in the region for their skills at preparing it. All of the hype surrounding Uzbek food reminded me of being in Jordan, constantly stuffing my face with hummus while the brats who had been to Lebanon …
a trip to Osh, part 2
(Part 1) My lasting impression of Osh was drab. Grey, poorly heated, a bit dazed and confused. Most of this was because of the awful Siberian cold front that was rendering the entire country shivering and miserable. I tried searching for something remarkable during the barely two days that I was there, but it just …