Kyrgyz Music Friday is a weekly feature in which I post a pop music video from an artist in Kyrgyzstan. It could be catchy, annoying, funny, insightful, brilliant, awful, or anything in between. It’s what’s playing on the radio, what all the cool kids are listening to these days. Kyrgyz Music Friday is not trying …
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If there were ever a “purpose” for this blog…
…it would be convincing readers that Kyrgyzstan is, in fact, an incredibly normal (and sometimes absolutely wonderful) place to live (and visit). A pretty popular travel website recently posted that Vice documentary on bridenapping that I ranted about a while ago. My first reaction was “UGH!!!” How could they!? Introducing so many people to Kyrgyzstan …
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FAQ
(Update, the blog is no longer active, but feel free to check out the archives!) What do you do? I used to run a research company in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan with my husband, see this post for more info about that. We moved away from Bishkek in August 2013 and as of October 2013 we live …
2011 in photos
January. Watching the Ak Maral dancers perform at the Bishkek Philharmonic. February. Farrell and I take a short trip to Osh to interview journalists for a research project on Kyrgyz media. March. I take a weekend trip to Kochkor with some friends, get ambushed by smiling soccer players.
a long way to see eagles
Like many of my mini-trips around Kyrgyzstan, I boarded a marshrutka full of friends and friends of friends at an unreasonably early hour, not quite sure where we were going or what we were actually going to do once we got there. That day’s destination turned out to be (in theory) an eagle hunting festival …
my 7 links
I had seen this thing popping up on several blogs and assumed I would not get involved due to the fact that I mostly just ramble about life, my cat, and You-said-where-istan. Or I post pictures. But then this lovely lady and fellow travel/photoblogger over at Anywhere But Home decided that I’m worthy of being …
Christmas
Merry Christmas, world! How did you spend your holiday weekend? I know my dad attempted to make cinnamon rolls, but apparently didn’t achieve quite as pretty results as I did. Oh well, I’ll make some for you when I visit. In the spirit of “doing something” on Christmas, the Belgians organized a trip to Chon …
back to life, respect the camel, etc
Farrell and I spent over four hours last Saturday morning in the most Kafka-esque police station in the world. Raise your hand if you’re a city with police stations that handwrite everything, all reports, all forms, all copies of reports and forms. *Bishkek raises hands* We did get a lawyer (a senior law student at …
Tips for photographing from a car
(Nowhere near as exciting as my last post of photo tips, but more practical, perhaps?) I like to think I’ve picked up some skills in taking acceptable photographs from a moving vehicle, considering that Kyrgyzstan is so vast that I’ve found myself zooming past some amazing landscapes for five or more hours at a time. …
day trips and musing about summer
Summer is officially over in Bishkek. It’s still hot, I’ll still make liberal use of my swimming pool, but September 1st is the first day of autumn here (as opposed to September 21st/22nd in the States). This summer was… strange. I had many grand ambitions that were tempered by the reality of my first trimester …