valerie
April 25, 2024 - this is Zoya. I asked why Zoya, and my host mom said, “because it is short and easy to say”. I accidentally let Zoya out of our yard last week. Luckily, some random guy on the street helped me get her back home. She’s almost 2 weeks old now. I assume she has a spine
April 23, 2024 - I love this picture, so I’m posting it for dreamy. house of my host family’s friends. We visited this past weekend, and I had such a large itch to climb all the hills around that I unfortunately didn’t get to scratch 😔 I wonder what it looks like here when it snows
April 21, 2024 - It’s hard to pick one picture for mountain since I live around them and take pictures of them almost daily. this one was from a recent morning run
April 19, 2024 - when in Bishkek, I bought a ping pong set for my host sister’s birthday (May). we don’t really have a table to play on…my hope is that she will still have some fun with it with her friends, and I’ll play with her as well. I plan to take it out of the plastic and put it in a gift bag
April 18, 2024 - was in a bit of a bad mood when I returned to school yesterday after only being out for 2 school days and found our chalk like this. the box of chalk under the yellow cloth was fairly new when I left. And my coteachers never buy colored chalk, it’s always me
April 17, 2024 - transcendence - my host mom’s cooking. she made these things for Ait. I don’t remember what she called it, something like sweet boorsok? She said it is Uzbek and she had never made them before, she just found the recipe on the internet and tried it. I love that energy
April 14, 2024 - cactus made by my best friend ❤️ I’ve seen cacti as houseplants here, but can’t remember about out in the wild
April 13, 2024 - a page from a book called Developing Writing: Writing Skills Practice Book for EFL, Beginning/Intermediate Level by Patricia Wilcox Peterson. I took a picture of this exercise because I would like to try it with my students and/or the teachers in my community
April 12, 2024 - this is a laminator sheet. problem is, there is no laminator at my school (and other things like a printer, but that’s for another day). however, yesterday I learned how to laminate my own papers using these laminator sheets and an iron, thanks to the magic of technology and YouTube
April 10, 2024 - wasn’t sure what I would do for ‘train’, but then we happened to go to my host mom’s village today. there are train tracks part of the way along the highway
April 8, 2024 - sign of prevention in the banya. from what I understand, it means that you aren’t allowed to wash/shower in the steam room/sauna room, only in the washing room
April 7, 2024 - people running a race in the park yesterday for World Health Day, which is today (is that why wellbeing was chosen for this day?)
April 6, 2024 - the weather yesterday afternoon was wild. first it was super windy and looked like this, like a duststorm blew in. The dust lasted about an hour, then blue/gray clouds came in, and it started to sprinkle, which turned to snow. After 5 minutes, the precipitation stopped
April 4, 2024 - I just really wanted to post this picture, okay?! sorry that I currently live at a high elevation and it’s still too early for foliage…at least I included trees, so you can just imagine leaves 😂
April 3, 2024 - behind on my own prompt 😂 a page from the basically national Kyrgyz 5th grade English textbook that had a birthday lesson with vocabulary words which we worked with this week including “birthday card“
