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July 1, 2023 - all the trainees in my village got together for a movie night but it didn’t work out the way we planned 😅
June 30, 2023 - my fellow trainees and my Kyrgyz teacher laughed at me today when I told them I carry a stick as my key to open my host family’s gate. This was not a personal choice - my host mom literally picked up a stick off the ground and gave it to me to use. I assumed this was normal
June 29, 2023 - I don’t remember the number, somewhere between 30 to 50 liters of kompot in the basement of one of the trainees who is in the same village as me
June 28, 2023 - Аит Маарек Болсун! (Happy Eid! in Kyrgyz) Just a small portion of a table in one of the seven houses we went to 🥴
June 27, 2023 - table set with fresh boorsok that my fellow trainees and Kyrgyz teacher made in preparation for Eid (Аит in Kyrgyz). I would have helped, but I have a cold and thought it would be better to just watch
June 26, 2023 - helped my host mom make Быжы this evening, sausage made with sheep meat, rice, carrots, garlic, onion and pepper stuffed in sheep intestine and then boiled. Thinking about the source too much makes me a bit squeamish because it’s not something I normally eat, but I liked the taste!
June 17, 2023 - Training Host Family Matching Day! Met my interim host family and I’ll be living w them for the next 3 months during training, the majority of which will be Kyrgyz language learning. Starting to understand why some people consider parts of this country as being in the “posh corps” 😅
