Various Pictures from Around Thanksgiving 2004

Created on: Sunday 05 December 2004


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We discovered that one of our mattresses had been stitched out of an old Communist flag.
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Pumpkin-San - the winner of the 2004 Kokshetau English Teachers' Association's Most Culturally Insensitive Pumpkin Award
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Some of my buddies from Platscar. That's not a real gun, it turns out.
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Yasameen's counterpart is uncooperative, her village is unfriendly, and she takes it out on tomatoes.
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Modern Karaganda. God damn, but the Kazakhstanis love heavy, awkward, chincy architecture.
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Me and the Mayor (Jay is a volunteer from Kelerovka, we just call him the Mayor)
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Karaganda again. This square struck me as extroardinarily beautiful. I wonder if I'm right or am just forgetting what extraordinarily beautiful cities look like.
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Some of the Thanksgiving celebrants
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Funky statues, funky volunteers in a Karaganda park
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Our Kaz-12 leaves late at night.
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I took blurry pictures
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And almost fell down