So I ran off to drop Lewis's printed homework to him, and I ended up with a Pakistani driver. I always have great conversations with taxi driver's. This one came to Kyrgyzstan to go to school to be a pharmacist. He did pharmacy school for five years, two years on internship, and now has been working the real job for over a year. He makes 8,000 soms a month, which is $133. That's right: a professional pharmacist. So he drives a cab on the side. He has a wife, a house, a five year old and another child, whose age I have forgotten (3)? And now he is a Kyrgyz citizen. Really nice guy.

And once again I find myself interested in his lack of mastery of Russian. He makes all sorts of mistakes that I wouldn't expect after eight years in Kyrgyzstan, and supposedly he speaks some KG, too, in addition to Urdu and English.