Posts under ‘Tajikistan’

Day three is done and out of here. Read about it here: Volunteer Vacation Day Three: More Dirt, More Mud and see about it below. Thoughts and comments very much welcomed. Shot of the second work site. Another shot of the worksite. The homeowner’s wife cooking delicious smelling food near the worksite. The team watches [...]

Okay, so I’ve blogged most ofmy trip details regarding Habitat in full on Gadling and reall y there is no need to repeat myself. With that here is the link if you wish to read the details and additional photos found right here, because I love you guys! Go to Volunteer Vacation Day Two: Making [...]

Since I’ve blogged on this day over at Gadling I’m just going to toss the details of the build your way view my post there. On the flipside I’m leaving the extra photos here. If you’d like to read about the build please foollow this link: Volunteer Vacation Day One: Shovels, Buckets, & the Pit [...]

Tonight we dined at Rohat which wasn’t too far from the apartments. Fanny finally made it back from Fann and some very interesting things occured. Well not all that interesting, but a little bit… First, Furkat decides it is time to assign new names along with Michael. Michael starts it off by naming Furkat – [...]

Visiting Vahdat City can be considered our first line of Habitat business. In Vahdat there are the first Habitat homes constructed in Dushanbe. We took a glance around the property and inside one homeowner’s house. Michael had Fahkriddin help translate some questions he had for the homeowner while the rest of us either looked over [...]

Alas, the team finally meets up. With the exception of Fanny who is still wandering around the Fann Mountains or slowly making her way back all team members have safely arrived in Tajikistan, even though it meant undergoing some wild times on Tajik Air. In fact after hearing all the hilarious stories about the flight [...]

Since yesterday was a complete waste I had to make-up big time and I started by doing my first run through the city. My schedule had four miles marked down and I decided running south down Rudaki and back would be sufficient enough. The sidewalks were okay to run on with the exception of steps [...]

My first day in Dushanbe was as exciting as boiling eggs. After Fanny and I were scooped up from the airport by HFH national director, Alinazar we went first to our apartment where we would be staying over the next two weeks. Fanny, who was set on going up to the Fann mountains for a [...]

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller For those of you joining me as I make my [...]

My visa finally made its way to the house today!!! Thank Heavens. I had a few worse case scenarios running through my head that are far to horrible to post here today, but let’s just say they weren’t pretty. Nope. Think positive, right! In the last few days some other small exciting things have occurred. [...]