Travelin Man

Time fly's I guess when you are having a good time.  I cannot believe it has been over a month since my last post.  I will try and highlight the major details, events, and what not.  Fortunately I have been able to travel the past few weekends and see some of Kyrgyzstan.  A couple of weeks ago I went to Song-kol Lake meaning last lake located in the Naryn Oblast.  It was everything it was hyped to be and the best part, well maybe not on second thought was I got to stay in a YERT!  The drive was amazing because you are surrounded by snow capped mountains and everything is so green.  Definitely it was a crazy weekend and I would do it again, no question!  I did suffer the worst sun burn of my life and am still peeling two weeks later.  It is definitely a popular area and quite a few tourists were there as well.  I am still getting to know the volunteers from my within my oblast and others as well, but the ones here in Chui rock!  Oooo, I bought a rice cooker!  It's still in the box but I have a feeling it will come in quite handy over the next couple of years.  Slowly I have been trying to learn a little about cooking.  If it starts to fail though I will just resort to milk and cereal and eggs and maybe a few other things as well.  My family helped me make jam and can it for the winter though.  Then again I may be slightly biased.  But everyone is so helpful and friendly.  The 4th of July was spent by the river in Luxemberg eating some BLTs and egg salad sandwhiches.  Just this past week I went to the south shore of Lake-Issy-kul and spent time on the beach with friends.  The lake as you may have guessed is beautiful and showed many shades of blue at once.  The weather was great, not too hot!  Chui is starting to get really hot and just walking to work I beads of sweat roll down my face.  Work is going better and today was super good!  Oh and congrats to Jim and Erin and their engagement!  YAY!