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frannieu wrote 4 months ago: After all my hand-wringing last night, I definitely made the right decision not to go to the bar.  w … more →

Tags: Nelly, Long lunches, siteseeing, house hunters, sangria

Lazy Sunday

frannieu wrote 4 months ago: So after my big night last night, I sort of crashed today. I slept in until nearly 1 pm, which I NEV … more →

Tags: homesickness, METRO, siteseeing, house hunters, Sagrada Familia

Sort of like a homecoming1 comment

oldvinyl wrote 1 year ago: I’m so glad I’m back in Russia. I got off the plane in Moscow and saw all the signs and рекламы adve … more →

Tags: babies, Happy, Send Me Mail Pls

Retro Blog Posts 2 Completed1 comment

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: It took me all day to do this in between the things I needed to do today and antisocially writing th … more →

Tags: Bastau, Food, Kazakhstan, Life, Nazarbayev Intellectual School, peace corps, Russian, snow, Taldykorgan

Last Night (New Years Eve)2 comments

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: Best. New. Years. Eve. EVER. I ended up going out to so many places in one night. It was pretty awes … more →

Tags: Life, Taldykorgan, Food

Last Post of 2010

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: с Новым годом/Happy New Year!!! I hope everyone had an awesome 2010 and hope that you all have an ev … more →

Tags: Life, Kazakhstan, Russian, Taldykorgan, snow

Christmas (Again!)

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: I celebrated Christmas again with my family back home in Amerrrrikuhhhh through Skype. It was pretty … more →

Tags: Life, Food

Christmas in Kazakhstan

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: Busy day today. The 5th graders invited me to go to their Yoolka (a New Years celebration party with … more →

Tags: Taldykorgan, Nazarbayev Intellectual School, Food

Burgers & A Birthday Party1 comment

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: Around brunch time today, my host mommy brought home food for the host fam which wasssss: Fast foooo … more →

Tags: Taldykorgan, Food

More Snow Fun Time, Café, & Banya

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: Fun adventure day! I went with my host family to go to some snow nature place for some chillaxation. … more →

Tags: Taldykorgan, snow, Food

Last Night's Blackout

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: There was a blackout last night after we came back from the snow nature adventure. We had to set up … more →

Tags: Taldykorgan

Retro Updates Complete… For Now.1 comment

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: As promised, I have finished writing retro updates (writing new posts and dating them in the past) a … more →

Tags: Life, Kazakhstan, Russian, peace corps, Taldykorgan, PST, esik, Almaty, Shymkent

Snow Fun Play Time!

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: I went with my host family to some snow place in nature. My host mom’s three sisters and their husba … more →

Tags: Taldykorgan, snow

Bazaar1 comment

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: I went on a trip to the bazaar with my host family: Random bazaar places: Afterwards, the host fam a … more →

Tags: Taldykorgan, Food

Previously in KZ...

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: I am in Taldykorgan. It is a city that I will be working in for the next two years. I will be workin … more →

Tags: Kazakhstan, Taldykorgan

New to Taldykorgan

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: I arrived to Taldykorgan and stayed with my counterpart’s family for the first day. The second day, … more →

Tags: Taldykorgan, Nazarbayev Intellectual School

Goodbye, Esik. Hello, Counterpart.

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: This morning was the last day that I will be in Esik for a while. I will miss my host family. Even t … more →

Tags: PST, esik

Car Crash

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: Around midnight last night, I was about to go to sleep and then I heard a loud crash outside my wind … more →

Tags: PST, esik

Frozen Laundry

mjwinkz wrote 2 years ago: I made a vlog (video blog) for this blog post, but it won’t upload to the internets for some reason … more →

Tags: PST, esik


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