 | Leaving Tajikistan
2008-05-18, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | So….. I have been lazy. I’ve been here almost two weeks and haven’t written a journal entry since the first one. I’ve had a good 13 days. I’ve spent the days working with the oral history project, cat... |
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 | Visiting Friends
2007-05-25, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | In the last week or so I've been visiting old friends and have a friend from Indiapolis visiting me. It's been great to catch up with some of the people I met last year and have a good friend visiting... |
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 | Glimpses of Afghanistan
2007-05-10, Khorog, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | I’ve just returned form a pretty adventurous trip to the Pamirs. The Pamirs are a mountain range that lead into the Himalayas and contain a few of the tallest mountains in the world. Our route took us... |
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 | visiting Friends
2007-04-17, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Yesterday I went to visit my Tajik teacher and her family. It was so good to see her again. I had waited just a bit because I had brought some small presents for her sons and her and, if you remember,... |
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 | City Life
2007-04-15, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | One of the interesting parts of my life in Tajikistan is how it intersects multiple layers of society. Maybe even the extremes of society. Part of it is simply being an American student in a third-wor... |
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 | Safe arrival
2007-04-13, dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | It about 4am here now and I thought I’d take advantage of the early morning bonus jet lag hours to write up a journal entry.
After a total of 36 hours on the road, actually in the air (2 over night... |
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 | Snow...Electricty...Saying Good byes
2006-12-07, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Snow:
This past week we’ve gotten quite a bit of snow. It’s been really pretty, but makes it tough to get around because they don’t clean sidewalks or anything. Now we’re at the point where it’s tu... |
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| Uzbek Village
2006-11-08, turzonzade, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | This past week took me to a new village in the west of Tajikistan close to the border with Uzbekistan. Most of the inhabitants of the area are Uzbeks and I wanted to come here to see how things were f... |
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| plumbing update:
2006-11-02, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | I forgot to add one more thing to the plumbing entry.. I have a leaky sink or at least a drippy sink. I was telling my language teacher about it and as I was explaining it she told me that in fact m... |
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 | Tajik plumbing 101
2006-10-31, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | So… I haven’t written in a long, long time.. I’ve been in the city for a while doing my research here and I left to go to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan for a week (the city Eric and I went to in July). So I’ve ... |
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| Good Things
2006-10-11, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Good things:
Sorry that I haven’t reported in for a while or put up new pictures. My last trip I went to two places I already visited to talk with parents and teachers for my research. So I didn’t ... |
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| Rammadan: Ramazan
2006-09-29, Kurgan Tepe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | On September 24th the holy month of Ramadan started in the Muslim world. Here in Tajikistan many people observe it as well, but they call is Ramazan.
The month of Ramadan for Muslims is similar to... |
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 | iskich: take 2
2006-09-21, Iskich, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | This week I headed out to the village of Iskish again. This time to do some research as well as attend a wedding. I noticed I had put several pictures of wedding ceremoines up, but hadn't taken any pi... |
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 | Kulob 2700, picking cotton and swimming
2006-09-08, Kulob, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | So, I’ve been gone this past week in a village in the south. I had a pretty good week and I’ll let the pictures speak for most of the trip.
Highlights:
Kulob 2700: Kulob is the neighboring cit... |
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 | 1st day of school
2006-09-01, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | September 1st is the first day of school for all children in Tajikistan (and in all the former Soviet Union). It’s quite the production and I was excited to see it because, although I’ve been a teach... |
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 | Honey and Melon Festival
2006-08-22, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | On Saturday I got an early morning call saying I should come down and meet my friends to go to the honey exhibition. It was quite the interesting affair. They had closed off one of the main roads in t... |
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| Uzbek Wedding
2006-08-22, Turzonzada, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Yesterday was the official beginign of my grant program here in Tajikistan. One pat of the program is that I can get language tutoring along wiht research help. So, yesterday I met with my Uzbek teach... |
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 | Obi Garm
2006-08-17, Obi Garm, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | We left on Monday morning. In Central Asia the usual way to travel between cities is to find the place where cars/taxis and mini buses leave from and get a spot. Cars usally sit in line and when they ... |
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| Tajik Wedding
2006-08-14, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | I’ve been to many Uzbek weddings, but had not been invited before to any Tajik weddings. This weekend I finally got an invite to a Tajik wedding and, best of all, I was invited by the Best-Man so I go... |
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| Russain Orthodox Church
2006-08-08, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Last week was the first week I was alone here. I didn’t write to much this past week because most of it was work. Before I was combing work with visits, but now that I’m all on my own its work, work, ... |
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 | Emily's visit
2006-07-27, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | One afternoon in March I was having lunch with a friend of mine form the sociology department at IU. During lunch we were discussing our plans for the summer and it came up that we would both be overs... |
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 | Hona nahar, hamsoya har
2006-07-25, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | This is a proverb in Tajik “You don’t buy your house, you buy your neighbors.” One of my favorite parts about my apartment has become my neighbors. I live on the 4th floor, which can be quite a hike w... |
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 | Varzob
2006-07-13, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Okay, this may seem out of order because the website rejected our first attempt because it included words not in English. This seems like a good policy for a website trying to make sure all of it's c... |
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| Last Day in Dushanbe
2006-07-13, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Today is my last day with Chris in Dushanbe. Tomorrow we leave very early for our week in Istanbul. After that week, we part ways, me back home to Indiana, Chris back here to Dushanbe.
Let me t... |
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| Kurgan Tepe
2006-07-11, Kurgan Tepe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | So, only a few days until we leave for Turkey... Since there are just a few days left, I decided We should try and get out of the city a bit before Eric's firt trip to Tajikistan is over. Today's adve... |
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| Nice Pants
2006-07-09, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Chris and I are of an average height here. It is fun. I’ve grown accustomed in my life in the U.S. to being shorter than most people. Even at the age of 25 I’m used to people I don’t really know co... |
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| Back to Dushanbe
2006-07-09, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | We got up early to leave Bishkek. The airport in Bishkek is more organized than Dushanbe’s, but that didn’t mean it was not entertaining. In Central Asia, rather than forming a line and moving at a ... |
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| last few days
2006-06-30, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | The last few days have been very laid back. Actually, Chris has been running all over town to get all kinds of paper work in line having to do with registering here and getting our tickets and visas ... |
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| get outta town....
2006-06-30, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Yesterday morning Chris took me on a little excursion out of town. We took a “Marshuka” about 20 minutes out of the city to a smaller town that was bustling full of people just like the markets in th... |
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| Getting around
2006-06-30, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Chris has given me the job of paying our fare when we use any of the public transportation. I say “Du Kase,” and hand the guy/kid the money. I also bought an RC Cola yesterday. I said, “Yak Cola,” ... |
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| Family and Refrigerators...
2006-06-26, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | On Sunday Eric and I went to visit the family I lived with in Tajikistan the last time I was here. We had a great visit. I got to see all of the kids for a short time. The girls were very shy and did... |
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| Sanduks
2006-06-26, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Today’s adventure was another trip to the market. We took tow different buses to the far south of the city to one of the largest markets in town. I like to visit this market because they have a lot mo... |
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| We’ve got a big day… goin’ to Home Depot.
2006-06-24, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | We’ve been in Dushanbe for 2 days now, and have spent our time so far getting the apartment spruced up. I’ve been to markets in South America and Mexico, but I’ve never seen markets like these here. ... |
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| Arrival June 23rd
2006-06-16, Dushanbe, Tadjikistan. By: chriseric | | Hello all, we haven't quite arrived yet.. but in a few days we'll be heading off to Tajikistan. The itenerary will be: Tajikistan June 23rd-July 14th, then Turkey July 14th-20th. Eric will return home... |
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 | home again home again
2005-01-10, on the damn plane, Tadjikistan. By: the_katie | | S-H-E-I-Z-E-R P-O-R-N is the only way to explain today in one word. Woke up hella early to catch the bus to the airport. Thought we had plenty of time until we realize that we are at the wrong termina... |
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