Culture
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - Apples, Sure. But THC is from Kazakhstan too?
2011-10-05 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
Resources
- Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Books for Kazakh Students
2011-11-06
- Oh, CNN
Politics
- Image
2011-07-28 - Sub Rosa Endorsement
2011-07-26 - The Naked Truth
2011-06-12
- Image
News
- KZBlog is going down
2013-09-10 - Oh, CNN
2012-07-21 - Repentence
2012-07-15
- KZBlog is going down
Fun
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
2012-07-19 - Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too
2011-12-05 - House Hunters Bishkek
2011-12-02
- What Do You Know About Kazakhstan?
Tourism
- Asian Games Torch
2011-01-12 - Wikitravel
2010-08-07 - ALZHIR, the Soviets and Democracy
2010-07-30
- Asian Games Torch
Life in KZ
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
2011-12-07 - Healthcare and the Private Sector
2011-11-30 - Naked Man Pot
2011-09-23
- Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway
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Tag archive for ‘peace corps’
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Peace Corps Leave Kazakhstan, but Why?
It’s official. Peace Corps has left Kazakhstan. Official reasons are not given. However given that they didn’t let it just wind down, but instead evacuated volunteers with little notice and given that they didn’t make any official announcement until all volunteers were out, there are a lot of rumours out there as to why. Most […]
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The Final Five
Following up on this post about what Americans notice about life in Kazakhstan, Hilary has posted the top 5 cultural tidbits with links to her earlier posts. This final five post hits on some really tricky ones, probably the ones that really show the difference in mentality between Americans and Kazakhs. It is interesting to […]
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Men Lose Weight, Women Gain
Found an interesting post on Peace Corps Volunteers and weight loss from 2008. Apparently due to the heavy carbohydrate and meat diet, women tend to gain weight in Kazakhstan and men lose it. Some of that is because men process carbs better than women and some of it is because PCVs are more likely to […]
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What Americans Notice About Life in KZ
A Peace Corps volunteer has a series of great posts on cultural tidbits in Kazakhstan, which really come down to what Americans find interesting or different about habits and life in Kazakhstan. This one cites the habit of wrapping babies up in so many layers they can’t move. I call them “potato sacks” because the […]
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Love in the USSR
Great post by a Peace Corps Volunteer about how her host grandmother and grandfather fell in love. In case you wondered about love and romance among the Soviets.
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Peace Corps in Kazakhstan in the late 90s
An interesting video of a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served from 1997-1999 in Kazakhstan, as the fifth “class” of Peace Corps volunteers in Kazakhstan. The most interesting part I thought was about the views that Kazakhstani had about Americans at the time. A lot of this has changed now with time, but assuming that […]
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What to Expect
One Peace Corps Volunteer put up a series of posts on what to bring to Kazakhstan, what you need to know, and other advice. Now these are targeted for PC volunteers so they may not apply to tourists or diplomats planning to come live in Kazakhstan, but they are an interesting point of view so […]
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Everyday is not Halloween in Kazakhstan
But at least one intrepid Peace Corps Volunteer working as an English teacher in Zhezkazgan got his English club students to dress up. Check out the pictures especially and the description of how things went: Halloween in Kazakhstan. Some of the teachers I worked with wanted to do something similar but they were afraid the […]
