My 7th grade math/english class
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And their silly picture
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Mckay took the Zerinda crosscountry skis downhill
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Three volunteers cooling off after banya at Zerinda. Censored.
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They were out of skis the second day, so we played chess.
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This kid's sled is upside down. He doesn't care.
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It's hard to read, but the class's lesson started, "Carrie and Scott, sitting in a tree..."
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Ok, this is an ad for a political party. It features a baby, alone, with sharp scissors.
In Kazakh and then Russian, it says "We're one year old!" My first reaction to this was, who votes
for one-year old babies, or for the kinds of people who leave one-year old babies alone with
scissors? But this refers to a Kazakh traditional party (called "cutting the hobbles")
which involves cutting a cord tied between a baby's legs on its first birthday. Which
every Kazakh would immediately understand and interpret it as a benign and reduntant
symbol of a first birthday. I guess.
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What were these guys doing up there? There's nothing nearby. The truck wasn't moving.
Just following orders, I guess.
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There's a tendency to put really little kids in really big hats. It makes it
look like Kokshetau is home to a diaspora of midget coneheads.
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A nice homey picture of Globus.
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The outgoing Monkey, and the incoming Rooster. Look out, Monkey! Your bowels are on fire!
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My Koktobe 2 host family on my January visit home.
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My new apartment
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My new apartment again
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And again
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And again.
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This is Gulshat at Christmas
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