valerie
August 5, 2024 - the inside toilets at my school are finished and they look really nice! Here’s to hoping we will actually be able to use them..
(also, remember that picture of the window that I used to climb in and out of the school? …yeah, it’s this bathroom’s window 😅)
August 4, 2024 - saw this bird on my walk yesterday. I was able to get pretty close to it, which seemed weird. I don’t know if it was injured? or if its home was nearby so it was just chilling? Unfortunately, I only had my work phone (which has a crappy camera) at the time
August 3, 2024 - Went to school for a club. Passed some teachers outside the front of the school eating ice cream, including the director. Go to my classroom, sit, no students come. Oh well, time to go. That’s when I realized I got locked in my school 🙄 pictured is the window I climbed out from
August 2, 2024 - looks like my school already bought coal for winter 😳 feels ironic because yesterday was one of the hottest days we’ve had in my village (29-30°C)
August 1, 2024 - returned to my host family’s house yesterday afternoon. My mom and sister were making mashed potatoes, and they used an old glass bottle to mash them 😁
July 30, 2024 - hot spring pools in Cholpon Ata. Each pool had a slightly different temperature, ranging from extremely cold to extremely hot
July 27, 2024 - back of the guesthouse hotel where I am staying for the next few days! Cholpon Ata, Kyrgyzstan
July 24, 2024 - helped my family make manti the other day by putting the formed manti into the steamers. I apparently did a bad job of this because we had to squeeze a lot onto each steamer layer 😂
July 23, 2024 - sprinkler in the small garden in front of my host family’s house. They water these plants a lot (including in the middle of the day, when most Americans would say it’s not a good use of water) and then I remembered that it’s quite dry here
July 21, 2024 - if your name is Tom, know that you are loved by someone in Kyrgyzstan (but not me 😅). Ormon Khan Park, Kyrgyzstan
July 20, 2024 - when I went hiking about a week ago with friends who came to visit, we found this small hole/cave
July 19, 2024 - sports field in my village. I came here yesterday because it’s one of the only places in my villages with benches. Unfortunately, the road where I took the photo from is very busy, with cars driving from the village to the fields and back, so I didn’t stay long
July 18, 2024 - a container with sand (and trash) at my school to put out fires. Does anyone have this at their schools? There was at least one fire extinguisher above this. My boyfriend said the sand is in case the fire extinguisher doesn’t work..
July 17, 2024 - (unripe) sea buckthorn. It grows in the mountains around here. Hopefully they are ready to eat by late August 😁
