valerie
May 24, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 24: intricate design on my sheer curtains. The design doesn’t cover the whole curtain. Also, I have other curtains too which are not sheer
May 23, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 23: bit plain but nutritious and delicious snack. From one of my students, a woman in her 60s who brings me a food item EVERY. DAY. (I have told her several times she doesn’t need to, but she said she likes to! )
May 22, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 22: fabric pad on the sofa. It’s actually relatively heavy. I don’t know the name for it (if there is one, which I imagine there is). Either way, it’s very beautiful. The two sides have different patterns
May 19, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 19: today’s tea has certainly felt like an indulgence given that I couldn’t have any yesterday morning due to a blood test. (Everything’s fine, it’s a silly visa thing.)
and dark chocolate!
May 18, 2022 - MicroBlog Photo Challenge Day 18: random picture of a funchoza (фунчеза) salad I bought from the store
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!)
