Last Summer, the Kazakhstani government passed a bill which banned access to almost all blogging websites. Since mid-January, this censorship took effect so my blog is currently being updated through e-mail. Thanks Pa, Ma and Johnny. The ban prevents one from logging into his/her own blog and from viewing other public blogs through the country’s computer networks.
Its March here in Kazakhstan so that means Spring is officially here. About three feet of snow still sits outside my room window and it is in the negative 10s. Being from Northern California , one has to travel some ways to get to snow. For the first time in my life, I went sledding. On a warm -5C afternoon, my host brother (Artioum) and some other village kids took me to a 20 foot hill and we sledded down it for a couple hours. Crashing into the snow feels great.
On March 8th, it is Women’s Day. This holiday is taken seriously in Kazakhstan and is a national holiday. All the local stores have ready to go gift packages to purchase and it is culturally polite to wish every woman you come across with ‘To Women’s Day’. This time round, the men staff at the school read poems and sang songs for the women staff though the women still prepared all the food. When I got home, there was even more celebrating.
Its March here in Kazakhstan so that means Spring is officially here. About three feet of snow still sits outside my room window and it is in the negative 10s. Being from Northern California , one has to travel some ways to get to snow. For the first time in my life, I went sledding. On a warm -5C afternoon, my host brother (Artioum) and some other village kids took me to a 20 foot hill and we sledded down it for a couple hours. Crashing into the snow feels great.
On March 8th, it is Women’s Day. This holiday is taken seriously in Kazakhstan and is a national holiday. All the local stores have ready to go gift packages to purchase and it is culturally polite to wish every woman you come across with ‘To Women’s Day’. This time round, the men staff at the school read poems and sang songs for the women staff though the women still prepared all the food. When I got home, there was even more celebrating.
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