April 2010
4 posts
Voice of America
The other day I was interviewed by Carolyn Presutti from Voice of America, you should watch it.
http://www1.voanews.com/english/video-audio/
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/VOA-Interviews-Man-in—90395544.html
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Kyrgyzstan - My Experience
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. Thursday, April 8, 2010 1 a.m. local time Sporadic gunshots ring out as I sit in my Bishkek apartment with my American roommate, Lyla, and Kyrgyz friend, “Art.” We’re watching the local news, which the opposition gained control of and is now looping footage of the riots from earlier today. Kyrgyz citizens have overthrown Kurmanbek Bakiyev and his party. Coming to...
February 2010
2 posts
a month
Well, it’s been more than a month, and everything is still going swell. I got a job at the local English paper, The Times of Central Asia, and quit after twelve hours. I applied for a part-time tourist-reporter position and ended up getting hired as an editor. I was stuck editing Google translations of Russian articles. They kept bugging me to work, so I quit. I didn’t come to...
WatchI made this when I woke up from a nap using Dalton’s pocket camera. Sorry it’s shaky.
January 2010
2 posts
Take the train. It'll be a better experience.
So I met this gringa, Danielle Koehler, about 2 days before she left for Bolivia and I left for Kyrgyzstan. Our Mutual friend Jenni Marsh introduced us and we’ve been following our journeys since. She wants to make films about people. Cool. I like films.
Just like a good gringa, she also wants to help people, by building them websites. You should follow her travels.
1. How did you...
Two weeksish
Hello everyone, Sorry I haven’t been in contact with anyone recently, Kyrgyzstan has horrible internet and I’m still working on finding the best connection. We left BWI right on time and flew to Memphis. Short trip, not much to talk about, then soon after I hopped on a plane to Amsterdam. Everyone around me spoke this strange European language, and they refused to chitchat with me in...