June is almost over...

Those are two friends, Nate and Mike, near the first waterfall we hiked to.
Hangin out... that's a bottle of kymyz...fermented mare's milk. Mike and I have grown to rather enjoy the drink.
At the end of the week...work finished! We helped plaster/cement the inside walls of the house.
The second waterfall off in the distance.
Pretty, huh?
6-27-2009

Just thought I’d write up a quick post while I have some free time. I’ve been pretty busy lately. I just got back from working with Habitat for Humanity in a friends village. Fifteen of us worked on a house for 5 days. It was a great time. I’m leaving tomorrow for a big camp in Naryn so I doubt I’ll be able to post up much of a blog for a week or so. I’ll put some pictures up for this one since I got quite a few good ones. We went up into the mountains and to the lake one day during the habitat work.

Weather is getting warmer and warmer. Pretty soon the apricots will be ready to be picked/eaten. Can’t wait for that! My health has been pretty good…have some problems but will be getting medicine for it tomorrow. My ankle is almost 100% which is good. My plans for a 2-3 week vacation in winter to the States are coming along. I just need to finalize things and talk with Peace Corps but I think I should be able to do it. I’d like to travel around this area of the world but I just don’t want to be a tourist anywhere. I don’t like the idea of just traveling somewhere. I’d either need a friend who lives somewhere or to just do something like Peace Corps to travel. I have a feeling by winter I’ll need to get out of here for a little bit though…not that it’s bad but some things here wear on you after a while.

Anyway, I’ve got to re-pack for this camp and get going in a little bit. Hope everyone’s summer is goin well!

Pat