Snow

Me, my neighbors, my host brother and sister, the cat and the puppy out in the snow.

Also, my room- not snowy.

Kyrgyz Children

The happiest child in K-stan

The two most annoying children in Kyrgyzstan. The little one throws snowballs at me on a regular basis and the big one opens the door to my classroom while I'm teaching and yells things. I think they're my host cousins.

My neighbor's kid in the snow.

Some friends of my host brother.

My host brother on his donkey.

Tom the Cat- Some recent pictures

When I first got the cat he was all black. A month or two later he turned gray, and now he's back to being all black. I can't figure out why he keeps changing colors but my two theories are a) local dogs keep eating him while I'm away and my host family replaces him with another cat and b) he's feral and changes colors with the seasons.

A Kyrgyz Party

A couple weeks ago I went to a party with my host mom. I made the terrible mistake of bringing my camera and now have about 27,000 pictures of me with random drunk people. This is a sampling. The woman in one of the pictures is my host mom, I have no idea who the other people are, I'm thinking maybe host uncles. I ended up escaping through the field behind the house so they would all leave me alone.