KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘complaints’

  • You know it’s Nauryz in Astana

    …When it only snows twice in one day and the temperature gets all the way up to freezing! Everyone knows that Nauryz in Astana is always cold and rainy. For the past five years I’ve been here, it’s the same thing. This year, it was cold and snowy. Everyday this week it has snowed, and […]

  • New Years Decorations Are Up!

    Just a quick note. While in the US we now have an unofficial rule that Christmas decorations don’t go up until after Thanksgiving and that stores don’t sell Christmasy things–trees, ornaments, Santa Claus hats–in Kazakhstan, the New Years decorations are already going up and the stores are full of ornaments and wreaths and costumes. And […]