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• Manners

  Thanks to Kazakhnomad who posted on a story by a an expat working in Almaty about bullying on the toboggan trail. Go read her story yourself, but basically she was annoyed by kids who cut in line for the tobbagan trail at Ak Bulak and, what is more, being encouraged by their mother to cut […]

  3/17/11 • (1)

• Survey of Expats About Life in Kazakhstan

  Kazakhnomad has yet another interesting series of posts up on a survey she did of expats living in Kazakhstan. If you start from that post and go forward in time, you’ll be able to see all the questions and results. I thought it might be fun to answer the questions myself as well, or at […]

  12/29/10 • (12)

• Things That Make Me Happy

  There’s been a number of small things that have recently become available in Astana that make life a bit easier or more pleasant for me and I suspect for a number of expats out there. I’ve been meaning to post on them, but they’ve tended to get forgotten. So I thought I’d just make one […]

  12/19/10 • (2)

• 7 or so Habits of Kazakhstani Managers

  I was asked recently to speak at a meeting of Kazakhstani managers about what expats think of doing business in Kazakhstan. Because I’m not really a businessman, I asked to focus on working with Kazakhstani and what came out is that the group really wanted to know what problems foreigners had working with Kazakhstani. There […]

  6/15/10 • (Comments Off on 7 or so Habits of Kazakhstani Managers)

• Eyewitness Accounts from Americans

  A couple of eyewitness accounts of the events in Kyrgyzstan from an American expat living there. If you want a narrative of one person’s day and what they saw on 7 April, check out Part I and Part II. Note that the author of the blog, Kazakh Nomad, is not the author of the narrative, […]

  4/13/10 • (Comments Off on Eyewitness Accounts from Americans)

• Peace Corps in Kazakhstan Over the Holidays

  Found a bunch of great posts by Peace Corps volunteers all over Kazakhstan about their preparations for Christmas, their frustrations and hopes. Thought it made for interesting reading. How do expats deal with living in a country where one of their culture’s major holidays is not celebrated? And how do the holidays get Kazakhified? So […]

  12/24/09 • (Comments Off on Peace Corps in Kazakhstan Over the Holidays)

• Retire Abroad

  Retire Abroad is a surprisingly useful resource for expats. Although it’s targeted at people looking to retire to another country, it has great information and resources about life in general as well as statistical trends and stories. I was very interested in seeing where Kazakhstan and other countries stood in the Gini coefficient (income inequality) […]

  11/30/09 • (1)

• Culture Shock Redux

  Having been away in the US for the holidays and returning to Kazakhstan, I feel like I am going through a renewed wave of culture shock. It’s not that everything is unfamiliar, it’s that certain things that I had gotten used to are newly irritating. There are a number of every day experiences that certainly […]

  1/14/08 • (Comments Off on Culture Shock Redux)

• Older Post: Foreign Lovers

  As work is piling up on me a bit, I thought I would post some things I wrote a while back. This one is dated only by it’s reference to an article on Neweurasia which is now ancient, but I think the topic—the foreign fiancee or spouse—is still relevant and interesting. I highly recommend Aiman’s […]

  9/24/07 • (Comments Off on Older Post: Foreign Lovers)