A taxi ride in Kyrgyzstan always ends up making me feel a little self-conscious and worried about my reproductive future. Ha, I know, right?! If only there were a ring on my finger and a bun in the oven, I could finally earn the respect of my taxi drivers.
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Day 256: Tempted By Things I Hate But Also Love
Pat called to let me know he had started the rather long journey home from work, and to chat. I took it upon myself to blurt out a thing or two clawing away at my otherwise calm mind. “The language school wrote back and said that all their school dorm rooms were booked up.” I could hear the disappointment come out in Pat’s voice when he responded.
September 14, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 3 }
Day 122: Getting in Touch with Locals (How I Roll, Part 3)
How do I get in touch with locals and the culture? Glad you asked! This is the third post in a series on getting in touch with locals during travels. Check back for more, or subscribe via email to never miss a beat.… Read more
I have my ways of getting touch with local culture. In the past two editions of this
May 3, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 4 }
Learning Like a Child: Host Family Flashback Part 2
For seven long weeks I lasted as a regular in the Kyrgyz family… Read more. Somehow, now when I think back, I don’t know how I did it.
Some days were more trying than others. As a complete newbie to Russian, I quickly realized just how much brain power I expended at my lessons constantly thinking, translating and deciphering all day
April 24, 2010 · Read full story · Comments { 12 }
Learning Like a Child: Host Family Flashback Part 1
When a language is just so different from your native tongue, the best thing you can do is to forget about any preconceived notions you have about language structure and just attempt to learn it like a child.
I learned my lesson the hard way… Read more – by spending countless portions of class time hounding my poor teachers as to why
April 19, 2010 · Read full story · Comments { 8 }
Avoidable Mistakes
I have to apologize again for the late post. I was tagged a while ago now by Michael of The Mobile Lawyer blog to make a post on all the avoidable mistakes I’ve made in order to help others out in their travels.
… Read moreWell, the reason it took me so long is because I just couldn’t think of much! For
January 17, 2010 · Read full story · Comments { 9 }
What has been the best year of your life?
In one of my conversation clubs in school here in Ukraine, I asked my students what the best year of their life has been. Questions like these, followed with a simple, “Why?”, are a great way to get them all to talk (my main goal for my classes), while also killing a ton of class time. However, a lot of… Read more
January 15, 2009 · Read full story · Comments { 5 }
Central Asian TidBits Buffet
In an attempt to be caught-up and on-the-ball upon my return abroad in September, I’ve decided to combine all these little ideas for individual blog posts into one smorgasbord of interesting bits. So, here you have it! What I’ve learned, loved, lacked and l-acquired (?) while in Central Asia.
August 20, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 1 }
Meet the family.
I bet you have been wondering what life with my Kyrgyz family is like, right? I have purposely put off talking a lot about this because for the first week and a half, my host dad was away for work. Well, he finally arrived back home this past weekend and home life has changed drastically – not necessarily for the… Read more
May 1, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 13 }
Food, Vodka, and More Vodka
One of the perks of being involved with a language school is meeting all the interesting people that come and go. We have a nice little community of people to hang out with, which also opens the door for meeting other Kyrgyz families. This week, Ryan and I were invited over to Jamie’s host family’s “mansion” for a typical dinner… Read more
April 27, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 2 }
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