Russian has confusing noun and adjective endings (which are called ‘cases’) so I usually distribute to my second-year students a reference sheet simply entitled “The six-case sheet.” I usually do that in the summers, too, once I find a place to laminate them so that they hold up better. Alas, I could not find any place that did that. Now I have, and not in international looking, big stores on a main street.

Two of the main streets of Bishkek are Chuy and Sovetskaya. Where they intersect there are underground passageways to cross the intersection so that pedestrians don't hinder the major traffic. And along these passageways are dozens of little kiosks/shops that sell this and that. This area is called a подходка by the locals, and within are some copy shops that have laminating machines. Whodathunkit?

So on Monday the students will have Livingston's world-renowned six-case sheet.