is still killing me. Went to sleep around half past midnight. Woke up at 4:30 a.m. They say that it takes a day of adjustment for every hour of time difference. Bishkek is 13 hours different from Phoenix, so the rule of thumb is that would take… more »

A lot of our guys are going to want to work out over the summer: it's part of the Y chromosome thing. I've become grotesquely fat and want to do the same. I looked over the links we had been given for the city, tried to find the gym that was closest.… more »

Not far from our school is a small mall called the Vefa center. When I went to the washroom yesterday, I noticed an unexpected snaky thing in the WC. What is it? Yup, a hose. Wouldn't have thought of putting that in a men's bathroom. My bathroom… more »

I had dinner this evening with James, an American expat who has worked in Bishkek for 2.5 years now, and he brought along a Russian buddy, Alex. James speaks adequate-ish Russian, and Alex speaks adequate-ish English, so we bounced back and forth… more »