And I don’t mean just for me. Today it seemed like the entirety of the Peace Corps staff in Almaty were descending on Saimasai; that can’t ...

I just delivered my first lesson for the week. I can’t honestly say it was a good lesson insofar as it went according to the lesson plan – ...

Anyone who has gone abroad at the behest of an educational or service organisation will be very familiar with the culture-shock ‘W’, a graph...

From 1 September (First Bell Ceremony): Our school; rear view... ... and front. This is, of course, during the ceremony itself; it took up...

Wow. Twenty-three years old as of yesterday – I’m getting old. My local host family threw a big birthday party for me, but since my birthda...

Well, my classes for the first week are finished. Muhabbat gave me one sixth-grade class to teach solo (this past Monday), and one tenth-gr...

I apologise to my gentle readers that I have been most unfortunately remiss in my blogging. I'm going to have to play some catch-up fir...