2002-09-19 - 1:52 p.m.
Hello All. I finally remembered my password. Spelling will be bad because cyrillic and eng are on these keyboards. So let us see, Ispent this monday night with a fever of 102. Then later that night in a pool of sweat, and today, i feel relatively fine. All part of the fun. My language classes are intense and I amin the faster moving group although at the lower end of that group. And the Subwayladyjust made me look like a fool even though Iwas right all along. She kept telling me more money, when I gave her the right amount, and used the correct phrase, she just wasnot following me. Ohwell. My fam is awesome, and althought they triedto feed me greasy egges and potatoes mid fever, they are very protective of me. My dad hits the vodka periodically, but he is moderate and reserved. one night I saw him pull a swig from his bottle in the glove compartment as we were about to enter his mother in laws house. Guess its the same everyewhere. My practice school is fine and I feel well prepared by MSUSA and my past teaching experience. WE literally have no resources so feel free to gather books in English,chalk, paper or whatever and send it when i get a permanant address. The chalkbords here are like writng on glass. Exactly!! I ate my first anor, or pomagranite the otehr day. Delicious. And I was invited by the sketchy police guy in Samarkand to climb the 600 year old Medressa Minurette. Its a huge tower that spirals in pitch black and stone. I was able to look out and see the city. It was awesome, and illegal. But my $1.50 tip won him over. I will add more as wxciting things take place, but rememeber to collect little things to send for my classes and for me, but know that it is expenseive to send big packages and they will preopen everything, so nothing inappropraite or valuable. TAke care.
