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November 16, 2022 - Globus supermarket franchise soon to open about a minute walk from my apartment!! My favorite supermarket here
November 15, 2022 - from my locally purchased deodorant which contains aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex gly
November 13, 2022 - personally don’t drive here myself, but still have to adjust to seeing vehicles in adjacent lanes* mere centimeters/inches away from each other
*also applies to driving cars + cars parked along the side of the road
November 12, 2022 - I had a suspicion that I wouldn’t like these ketchup flavored Cheetos…I was correct
November 11, 2022 - the garlands being put on display close to toilet brushes was really off-putting to me…they look similar, no?
(surprised to see garlands out when winter holidays aren’t until Dec 31 and the new year. Don’t remember seeing these out in November last year)
November 10, 2022 - I had no idea where Kyrgyz goverment ministers actually worked and found the place using a local maps app 2GIS (which apparently isn’t in app stores atm due to sanctions?).
Looks like a cool building from the outside, will have to stop by and take my own pics
November 9, 2022 - yesterday the weather forecast showed that it was 90% certain about snow today – it did snow a little bit!
And then it all melted by noon ð
November 8, 2022 - consensus: funny or just me?
I first read the name of the store “iCon” as ‘I’ plus the verb ‘con’. I thought, ‘oh, that makes sense because it’s not a real Apple store’.
Then I realized the name was meant to be the word “icon”
November 7, 2022 - insight into how marshrutka drivers store coins
(ugh I had this post ready yesterday, just forgot to hit Post!)
November 4, 2022 - admiration for my student who brings me something daily. She said this is a Uyghur snack and told me the name in Russian, but I couldn’t make sense of it. Had to search around in Chinese to find it: æå. Baidu calls it a Chinese snack
November 3, 2022 - if I had had a license and car, I wouldn’t have had to wait at the bus stop this evening
November 1, 2022 - today’s exchange figures
(yes I am aware that we don’t actually use this collocation in English)
October 29, 2022 - Gapar Aitiev National Museum of Fine Arts. Gorgeous paintings and cool crafts here. Pic is a tapestry of a manaschi, a man who recites Manas (Kyrgyzstan’s national epic). There was a manaschi painting also. Both were depicted evoking magical imagery & elements
October 28, 2022 - mural on a building in which you can see a woman wearing a traditional Kyrgyz headdress called elecheck
October 26, 2022 - saw these outside of my neighbor’s door. wonder if they were making jam? or just bought a lot of berries?
I still see strawberries for sale on the street and in the bazaar but I know they will be gone soon with winter coming ðĒ
October 25, 2022 - a drink called tarkhun, a green soda made of tarragon leaves which was recommended to me. I have yet to try it, not because I don’t want to, but I’ve only seen it in a fairly large bottle and I am one person…perhaps I can get my colleagues to try it with me ðĪŠ
October 24, 2022 - statue of a manaschi (a reteller of the Kyrgyz epic Manas) named Sayakbai in front of Bishkek’s Philarmonia (concert hall)
