Kaztelcom, Blogger, Peace Corps, and My Money
I put my tenge on the table during prime time (4.17 tenge per minute, and seemingly more likely to get a connection that actually works) for no less than ONE AND A HALF HOURS, and now archives work, there's a new post, I got the week of backlogged mail that Kaztelcom has been denying me, and I downloaded information from three graduate schools.
Not only was this money well spent, but this is Peace Corps Kazakhstan budget survey month, so this is going towards the salary requirement estimates for urban Kazakhstan! And I had yogurt for breakfast, too!
Not only was this money well spent, but this is Peace Corps Kazakhstan budget survey month, so this is going towards the salary requirement estimates for urban Kazakhstan! And I had yogurt for breakfast, too!
4 Comments:
If I did the conversion right, that's 90 minutes for only $2.88 USD. Which is kinda surprising, since in the states you have to buy a $2 coffee before you can use the WiFi.
Yep, that's what I get on the www.xe.com currency converter too. Not bad.
Survey month rules! I realized all kinds of thing I "needed" that I'd been missing (though we were truly underpaid in Uzbekistan in '00).
Nathan -at- Registan.net
I found some figures on a UN site that I put together to get the factor between purchasing power parity dollars and real dollars in Kazakhstan as about 3.5, so that's actually about $7.50 in actual money.
There's a real dichotomy between city folks and country folks in KZ when it comes to payment. All the city people have just barely enough and the country people seem to have a lot to spare. (On the other hand, I eat a lot of things besides potatoes, too.) Then when the country people come to the city, they want to go to all the expensive discos, eat out, etc.
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