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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: no strings attached
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Monday, December 1, 2014. You Can Have This Money, Just One (Thousand) Condition(s). You must give it all away. Standing with two trainers and a participant from the Youth Committee Training. The lower the percentage, the higher the likelihood I would donate. There is this mentality when giving money- we want the money to go toward the project, not into the pockets of those running the project. We don’t want our money going into the pockets of Bubumairam and Guljash…right? Wrong Of course I do! Great ref...
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: This Past Year
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Sunday, December 21, 2014. When I wrote the post “ Projects to start strong this new year. 8221; I intended to follow it up with this post, detailing the successes and failures of those projects. What I didn’t intend was for the year to pass so quickly. With only six months left on my contract (out of 27), it seems my time in Kyrgyzstan will be over before I know it. 1 Help Establish a Microcredit Agency within the NGO Epkin. Also, notice how I just added youth in there in that last sentence? Not complet...
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: Тынч Means Peace, it also means Quiet
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Тынч Means Peace, it also means Quiet. Read on to hear the struggle of this fool. Is the Kyrgyz word for peace. It also means quiet. I am a fan of peace, but in this instant I cannot be quiet. Too many hearts are screaming inside bodies with mouths sewn closed. You may not hear the noise, but quiet it is not. Why is bride kidnapping so harmful? Is it really much worse than arranged marriages? Isn’t it just a different cultural understanding? It may seem irrational, but men suffe...
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: Projects to Start Strong this New Year
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Projects to Start Strong this New Year. The New Year, is coming. My host niece Ossil (some contend her name is spelled Asel in Latin script, but it sounds like Fossil without the F so I submit my way is better, you be the judge) and I prepared for the momentous occasion by making origami decorations and various other crafts all day long. We’ll pick up where we started tomorrow, also we’re going to make ribbon cookies. Ossil decorating some snowmen. This is our latest logo.
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: August 2013
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Thursday, August 15, 2013. Tire Swing and Other Pictures. I decided I should upload some more pictures since I have awesome internet now. Here is my outhouse. I think it's rather cute. My host mom was worried when she saw me taking this picture. She asked me if I thought it was a bad outhouse, I responded that I like it, which is the truth. This is the view from the toilet of my house and the backyard. You can see my host niece swinging on the tire swing under the tree on the left. Morning in the Village.
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: December 2014
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Sunday, December 21, 2014. When I wrote the post “ Projects to start strong this new year. 8221; I intended to follow it up with this post, detailing the successes and failures of those projects. What I didn’t intend was for the year to pass so quickly. With only six months left on my contract (out of 27), it seems my time in Kyrgyzstan will be over before I know it. 1 Help Establish a Microcredit Agency within the NGO Epkin. Also, notice how I just added youth in there in that last sentence? Not complet...
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: May 2013
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Friday, May 17, 2013. I've been really busy learning Kyrgyz and integrating with my community so I haven't had time to write a good blog entry. So I'm going to be lame and post a clip from an email I sent my dad a few days ago:. I'm finding their culture to be the most interesting asset the country has after it's literally breath taking views of the mountains. I'll include more next post. Since I put the computer together my host mother has been around more in the evenings working on it, so maybe she had...
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Koi Soi (Sheep Slaughtering Ceremony). Warning, this video is graphic. I did my best to make it watchable for even the squeamish, but just know you've been warned. It opens with a shot of the sheep and Stephanie's host mother sharpening the knives. The legs are first bound to keep the sheep from struggling too violently. Before the sheep is slaughtered everyone says a very quick prayer, as seen at second 18. After the sheep has passed on, the hoofs are cut off. I'm serving f...
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: iPhones in Outhouses
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014. A traditional mattress pad. But I do use an outhouse. At night I use my iPhone’s light to find my way to the outhouse. For more on bridenapping, I’ve written another post about it, click here. August 9, 2014 at 5:52 PM. Good morning, how are you? For all this, I would ask you one small favor:. Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Kyrgyzstan? Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan: April 2013
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Sunday, April 21, 2013. Heading to Our Host Families! The buses are all packed and we're getting ready to meet our host families. Not sure if there will be wifi for a while! Friday, April 19, 2013. This was apparently the breakfast we had this morning, of course I got there after 30 people went through the buffet so I'm looking forward to trying some of these tomorrow morning. Only one other person in my row. Of course we moved around during flight so we could chat, so this setup did eventually change.
