hangin out...

hey,

haven't written in a while, just wanted to let yall know everything's jake over here in kyrgyzstan...i went down south to osh, jalabat, tosh komur, and toktogul a couple weeks ago with my friends charlie and jesika and had a great time...hardly any russians down there so i got to go wild with my kyrgyz language skills...

also, a couple days before we left for the south, some of us worked on a habitat for humanity project here in bishkek - they started "Habitat Kyrgyzstan" several years ago and have already built 35 houses and have plans to built a bunch more...we had a great time and it turned out like half of the local workers live in my village outside Kant so we shot the crap all day long...

friday and saturday i'll be participating in a 3 person pannel to conduct interviews in kyrgyz with 20 young religious leaders between the ages of 18-30 hoping to fill 10 spots for an American sponsored 1 month cultural awareness romp around the States...my conversational kyrgyz is pretty fluent, but about conducting professional interviews, we shall see...

then starting next friday i'll be working at an English immersion camp for kyrgyz english teachers for 10 days in a village outside bishkek...we start at 8am every morning and don't end until after 10pm each day - intense... should be fun though, they have professional teachers coming in and doing language sessions, so i get to do the fun stuff, like conducting speaking and listening classes, using videos, readers, and games...also we'll be there for the 4th so we'll play games and eat lots of watermelon...

i'll try to post some pictures from the south trip and the English camp after its over July 5th...probably wont be another post until then so....

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!! - be safe and have a great time wherever you may be -

Rick