valerie
May 17, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 17: hold on, it’s what you gotta do when you’re standing on a crowded bus or marshrutka
May 16, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 16: time
clock in my office which I rarely look at (because I’m usually sitting at a table against the opposite wall). In fact, I just noticed it has kiwis on it
May 15, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 15: clouds
picture from May 9th. Unfortunately one of my last few days in this living space. I am going to miss the view. Though maybe it will be for the best as hot, sunny days (more of which are coming) are brutal
May 13, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 13: community (that’s a good word to describe pushing a trolleybus together, isn’t it?)
seen this past Wednesday, May 11
May 12, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 12: only tranquility here where there is supposed to be a seller. Ашлянфу/Ashlan-fu is a famous, eastern Kyrgyz cold noodle dish of Dungan origin
May 11, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 11: finally putting my sweaters (including a maroon one), coat and comforter in my suitcase to free up space in my wardrobe
May 10, 2022 - one complaint I often hear from my students about their country is that the roads are not maintained well (i’ve heard that this is said in Russia as well? is this a Slavic/post-Soviet phenomenon??). Anyways, here’s a particularly gnarly pothole in a parking lot
May 8, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 8: billboard which references Victory Day (taking place tomorrow, May 9th), a holiday inaugurated while Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet Union
May 5, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 5: The Globus (supermarket chain in Kyrgyzstan) logo has a globe (earth) in it. Their plastic bags also purport to help the earth, but I’m not a believer
May 3, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 3: experimental in trying different body care items after running out of existing ones (definitely not a ‘buy a bottle big enough to use for a year or two’ kind of person)
May 2, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 2: photo of a Windows XP Professional desktop in a Kyrgyz informatics textbook published in 2010
May 1, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 1: button (switch) on a домофон (door phone)
(the small circular one!)
April 30, 2022 - pharmacy haul!! (tl;dr - been sick about a week now with mainly a sore throat and cough. Today, a colleague went with me to the doctor who said it’s a bacterial thing and prescribed some meds)
April 29, 2022 - Hey, what are you drinking? Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just drinking an “Almond Rice-Based Non-Alcoholic Beverage made from organic raw material”
April 24, 2022 - lots of dates for sale in stores these days due to Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting in which it is customary to break one’s fast with dates
