and more!
yesterday Joshua and his class were invited to the garden of our head gardener from our community village. She had some pumpkins she wanted to show the kids and obviously so much more. Her garden was beautiful and impressive.
And it was all organic. Although the kids weren’t too impressed with the big pile of ‘poop’!
She even had some fish being dried out the front. The kids and adults hadn’t seen anything like it.
It was a wonderful field trip.
Happy Thursday!
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does this count for street art? This dude was on the street!!
How about these, locks on a bridge? Are they lovers locks?
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and I’m still going! wow, October is here already! what happened to September? But I’m not complaining. That means only a couple more days till we head to California!!
Here are some pictures of last week. I was busy but had time for a tour of the city.
I really enjoyed the tour of the city. we weren’t able to get to the Mosque since our tour was the same day as prayer day. Maybe another time.
Also the kids had a concert last week. They sang in kazakh, danced some Kazakh dances and played the local instrument. It was awesome!
we were away last week in the capital of Kazakhstan, which is Astana. It was different to my city Atyrau.
It was grand, it was beautiful and when I walked into one of their malls it was hard to believe I was actually still in Kazakhstan.
I guess that says a lot about the city we live in, Atyrau. although in the one year I’ve been here I’ve seen a lot of construction and things changing, but they are moving forward.
The kids are back in school and this week they’re celebrating Kazakh week. It’s things like this that make me really appreciate the ‘expat’ life that we live. Joshua and Tanysha are excited that there’s a Yurt in the school lobby. It’s quite amazing.
All week they’ll be learning about this country that we’re calling home for now and that makes me happy.
I hope to share with you this week what I’ve learnt too.
Happy Tuesday!
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whenever I can put my feet up, that’s some ‘me time’. with a book in my hands is even better.
whenever I put my workout shoes on ‘that’s definitely some ‘me time’ and I love it.
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(p.s. travelling right now so I’ll visit you all soon….)
most Monday’s I’m excited to begin a fresh week and I’m ready to go! Ready with my list of things to do and go, go,go.
Not today…….
I’m feeling tired, sore and just yuck. (Maybe I had too much of a good time during the weekend!) Do you have those days, when you just don’t feel like doing anything? Well today is one of those days for me.
But, there’s things that have to be done, and thankfully lock down is over (for now). We fly out tomorrow to Astana for our interviews for visas. I hope they’re granted!!
Happy Monday to you all!
a lock down, block parties and enjoying our community.
It was an eventful week here in town and it ended with the decision made Saturday morning to lock down our community. No one was allowed in and no one out. It was a little scary. We only hear about what’s happening on the news and of course word of mouth, and you know how that can end up.
But we made it work.
Tomorrow is another day and the beginning of a new week. I hope things settle down.
Happy week!
