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October 3, 2024 - We did a review of clothes in today’s English club (since the last three clubs have been somewhat related). Then I gave each pair of students a blank person template that they had to make clothes for π made a display afterwards of their work (on a board that no one looks at)
September 30, 2024 - my host brother brought home these huge, monster strawberries, courtesy of his friend. We ate some, and the others are being turned into jam. My mom commented, “the last fruit of summer”, and that made me sad π
September 29, 2024 - went into the storage room where I keep my bike to find this… luckily, my family moved my bike to a different place, they just didn’t tell me that they had π
September 26, 2024 - Kochkor, Kyrgyzstan. Funny that “St. Petersburg” (Π‘Π°Π½ΠΊΡ-ΠΠ΅ΡΠ΅ΡΠ±ΡΡΠ³) is written half in English, half in Russian (but all with English letters). Also, love the enthusiastic touch of three exclamation points
September 22, 2024 - my favorite domestic animal is the scapegoat. It’s always good to have one around just in case I need someone or something to blame
(from a Kyrgyz/Russian/English book that I bought yesterday)
September 20, 2024 - one of my coteachers has a black and white notebook that she uses for writing our lesson plans, and I just noticed today that the front reads “shine, damn it” in English π I doubt she knows what it means π
September 19, 2024 - Last year I didn’t see a single bike at school, so I can’t help but to wonder if I am the cause of the increasing number of bikes at school π because as I have started to ride my bike to school more, I have been seeing more bikes parked near mine. Today I saw 4!
September 18, 2024 - don’t you love when people leave their bags of trash on the side of road?
there aren’t even any houses around here
September 17, 2024 - this past Sunday went on a bike ride and discovered a WHOLE RIVER that no one ever told me about?? And it’s not even that far from my house? It seems like a really nice place to just sit and relax
September 16, 2024 - went to the Kochkor movie theater yesterday with my host family. I don’t know if they do public showings? We just had a small showing room (pictured) for the 6 of us. And it was a pretty homey set up, the movie was loaded from a USB drive (I assume that’s not the norm?)
September 14, 2024 - the horses are home! Here is one handsome horse that was separate from the others. I asked why, and my grandma said something like he doesn’t get along with the herd, I guess because the dominant (and maybe only?) male sees him as a threat. Handsome horse is now gone, tho π₯
September 13, 2024 - random TV appeared in my classroom yesterday πΆ turns out it’s the IT teacher’s old TV. Now we see if anyone thought about how the TV would be used before mounting it on the wall. At least a ‘motivational sign’ in the classroom that I didn’t like has been taken down as a result!
September 11, 2024 - I climbed this ladder to where my host family keeps the hay, not all the way, but I realized that the top step wasn’t being strongly held in place when it came loose…glad my foot wasn’t there when I realized π³
