Posts under ‘Tajikistan’

A popular Tajik soup type dish I had while in Dushanbe last year. It was pretty tasty from what I remember, yet considerably oily. Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson
When off teetering around in some foreign place I do my very, very best not to do something to shame my fellow American citizens.
I may have failed [...]

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It began with a tropical breeze and will close with the Mid-West freeze. As I get ready to depart for Chicago where I will spend New Year’s and the first two weeks of 2007 I sit here thinking of how blessed I’ve been this year. I was so sure sometime during 06′ that I’d wake [...]

Finally! I got my hands on one of the National Geographic Genographic kits and I will be doing my swab tests tomorrow. Though I’m sure I did, I may not have mentioned the project when I blogged about my Tajikistan travels, but it is something to spread if you’re into science, genetics, and discovering the [...]

Alas, a photo gallery of some of my favorite places and faces during my trip. Most of what you see here is found in the Pamirs and not part of my Global Village build, but I enjoyed both equally in different ways. Anyhow, I’ll let the photos do the talking this time. Please feel free [...]

Last day – sniffle… It’s always a little sad on the last day of building. Like you could have done more, but time ran out. Sigh. Here’s the full report or something like it… Volunteer Vacation Day Seven: Last Day of Building

My let’s get serious about poverty housing self-portrait…

Rocky and one of the [...]

To check out the fulls grueling work details behind day six of the Global Village build proceed to the following post as found on Gadling: Volunteer Vacation Day Six: Every Hand on a Bucket.
On a more personal note – today wasn’t as active as the team would have liked it to been, but we made [...]

On our fifth day of building we were relocated to a third worksite. It really didn’t seem as though our services were needed. The worksite was a bit cramped and there was much downtime, but we made the most of what we could do when we were asked to something. Here’s the report as found [...]

One of my biggest concerns coming over to Tajikistan was the possibility of there being an interruption in my marathon training. I found myself getting locked into thinking I wouldn’t be running for three weeks, but such was not the case. Early on Teo recommended that I run down by the Dushanbinka River which was [...]

September 9th is the day Tajikistan became independent from the Soviet Union and is an official public holiday. We had the day off from building and our schedules suggested we would walk the center of the city to celebrate, sight-see, and do as we please. Before doing anything else we started our morning like normal [...]

Day four out the door! (Clever isn’t it?) Read about the build by visiting Gadling. Volunteer Vacation Day Four: Bringing Mud to the Roof.

Movin’ on up, movin’ on up…. to the Eastside. Not quite? Okay, yeah so we here we are bringing the mud from the ground to the roof.

Working with the homeowner’s son Vali [...]