November 20, 2024 - bought a pack of cards with fruits/berries and the Kyrgyz, Russian, and English names on them. However, I’m not convinced that sea buckthorn (which is the berry shown) and guelder-rose are the same (I’d never even heard of the latter until I saw this card 🙃)
November 18, 2024 - orange flavored M&M’s. Do you have this in your country? 🤔 They were not my favorite 🙃
November 16, 2024 - there was a fall celebration at my school yesterday in which girls showed off outfits (mostly dresses) made of any materials. My favorite (not in this picture) was a dress made of plastic plates and cutlery because fall is the season for parties in Kyrgyzstan
November 14, 2024 - took so many pictures today. I’ve never seen this much snow in my village. I like the way these crescent moons look in the light
November 7, 2024 - Missing cat poster in Bishkek. “He has a name, but he only responds to ‘ks ks ks’” (this is how people call cats to them in Russian). While I am sorry about the lost cat, I thought that sentence was funny, hence taking the picture
November 5, 2024 - We bought and played Shifting Stones (this is the English name) for my boyfriend’s birthday. It’s a quick and easy game, and good for kids (8+)
November 3, 2024 - knock-off Kumamon display (or costume?) in a knock-off Miniso store called Usupso
November 1, 2024 - continuing on the trend of Halloween gifts, I got this ring and note today, ironically from one of my host sister’s best friends (my host sister does not care about English 😅)
October 31, 2024 - 1st Halloween gift ever 😊 it was much appreciated as I feel like I’m dragging myself to the end of the first quarter of school (tomorrow). Glad next week is fall break because I’m ill, can barely talk, and am just so tired. So today’s Halloween club sucked but 🤷♀️
October 30, 2024 - trading teaching English ideas at a seminar like they are hot collector items 🙂 here’s an idea that another teacher showed me
October 28, 2024 - stairwell in a building of shops (and a banana peel above the doorway of a shop)
Kochkor, Kyrgyzstan