January 7, 2025 - yesterday’s strange cloud cover. The forecast showed a chance of snow, but alas, it did not. There’s another chance tonight, but I’m not convinced that we will see any

January 6, 2025 - dough was too thick, but otherwise our pizza yesterday turned out not bad, especially for Kyrgyz style pizza. The peace sign covering part of the pizza is my host sister

January 5, 2025 - relatively new sculpture in Kochkor’s small central park, located in front of the cinema, honoring a Kyrgyz film director who worked during the Soviet Union named Gennedy Bazarov

January 3, 2025 - leftovers from a Chinese fast food restaurant. things like this are part of what make Kyrgyzstan so funny to me. As I’ve heard other volunteers say, “copyright law basically doesn’t exist here”
