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- Summer in Dushanbe Is...
A month-long break from sadik.(In connection with the former:) Visits to the many new indoor play centers that have opened recently in our fair city, replete with those pools filled with small plastic balls, jungle gyms, climbing apparatuses, rides, little huts to play peekaboo in, etc.Rides in just about the only elevator in town -- and humorously quaint views out the window.
- Summer Camping Trip
Photos from our goodbye camping trip with 2 families that will leave us soon -- one for a few months and the other permanently -- are here
- Sadik Graduation: A Bit of Cultural Context
I posted a video clip and some photos today from Anya's preschool year-end pageant. There were a whole lot of dance numbers and a wonderful spread of food, with the landlord's plov as the centerpiece. The evening was a lot of fun, not least for us personally because of how Anya showed to what extent she has come out of her reserved shell in the last several months, capping this year in preschool with a dance "solo.
- Around (Part of the) World in the Past 80 Days
A non-chronological rundown from A to Z of what I?ve neglected to report since I last wrote:A ? Archives, in both Russia and Tajikistan.
- Flowers Multiply As Spring Nears
There were some direct requests for photos of the embroidery, so in addition to what I had up there before, here are some more.Project #1: One FlowerThis is the same one I included a different picture of in the original post.Project #2: Three Flowers, With ShadingThis is the one I completed over the fall and winter.
- Flowers in Winter
What's been happening these last few weeks in Tajikistan, you ask?Quite a lot.Maybe my explanation of The Rogun Powerplant Drama either didn't make sense or wasn't very interesting to anyone who reads this regularly (I know, you don't number all that many, and probably the bulk of you are more interested in the Anya report than in updates on the political or social situation in and around Dushanbe).
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