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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“
April 1, 2024 - toy. can’t remember if I posted this guy before. He’s technically an ornament, and one word for ‘ornament’ in Russian is игрушка, which can also mean “toy”, so this picture feels like a win to me for the prompt 😁
March 31, 2024 - I helped the librarian fix her computer again. she asked, “what do you like? I’m going to (nearby city) tomorrow, so I want to buy you something”. I said chocolate. about 2 weeks later, she gave me this…opened. it seems she had taken one for herself, which I thought was funny
March 30, 2024 - approached this ATM which was displaying this screen. it was not clear how much longer I would have to подожди (wait, in Russian), so I went to a different ATM instead 😂
March 29, 2024 - a lamb that was born before spring break. you can see the fresh paint on its head between its eyes - my host mom had done it that day
March 28, 2024 - my ticket (is that what we call this kind of paper? I don’t remember..) from Monday when I went to the US embassy to submit a passport renewal application
March 27, 2024 - went out for brunch. this was after we had eaten the 2 tacos we ordered in addition 😬 but everything was soo good. I know this cafe is owned by a foreigner, I think an American?
March 25, 2024 - today’s breakfast: блины (Russian pancakes) with сүмөлөк (pudding-like dessert eaten around the Nooruz holiday)
