One of our students had her wallet vanish with some money, credit cards and driver's license in it. Panic, of course. I did the typical group director thing; pointed out that if it was permanently lost, then we could do x-y-z to deal with it;… more »

Clases as usual. I sat in on one of the second-year classes. Things seem good there. I liked how they used their online textbook projected on the wall. There were some English explanations to help out, but the teachers kept exclusively to Russian.… more »

I sat down with a student named Forrest today to go over the use of prepositions in time phrases. Consider the following sentences: I lived in Paris for a month. I came to Paris for a month. In the first sentence ‘for a month’ is translated «месяц»,… more »

To my great shock, our group was invited to the home of the American Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, the Honorable Richard M. Miles. The Ambassador's staff laid out a sensible vegetarian pizza spread with beverages, and I have to say his discussion with us… more »