Salut and à Bientôt

  Salut, Somehow February is already basically over, and by my next post, it will be entirely over. My last post was relatively short mostly because a lot wasn’t happening. The last two weeks have been insanely busy and eventful, starting with Chinese Zodiacs and ending with classic French dances and a Coco film reference. Read on.  My host dad and brother have been trying to sell their black car. To my knowledge, they still haven’t sold it yet, and they for the last two weeks have been going in and out of the city to do miscellaneous work of sorts. Merder, my host brother, replaced Daniel, my host nephew (but I call him my brother because everyone is a host brother/sister), and the vibes of the house have been the same.  The weather has been pleasant. The snow finally disappeared and it started to warm (we even had a high of 61 one day). I quickly became accustomed to permanently cold weather (every day it’s usually around 29-40 degrees, and I’m used to that by now),...

Salut, Despite being solitarily at home, things still find their way to be interesting, even if it’s not always happening to me. My host father got a new job flipping cars. He and Daniel had been working on fixing a red car back in December. They bought an old one for cheap and recently sold it in Osh and made a 100,000-som profit (1123$) (100,000-som is 3-4 months total wage). They are now working on fixing up a new black car.  I’ve been trying to get into new music, mostly because after comparing my Apple Replays (yes, I don’t have Spotify and only use Apple Music so don’t have a Spotify Wrapped), I noticed my music from the past year or two all looks the same, lots of retreaded old pop music. I’ve grown to like lots of alternate music, and I am currently listening to Besomorph, Nathan Wagner, Saysh, amongst other music (lots of UNSECRET and remixes, too). So last week there was an earthquake around the Bishkek area which I’m unsure where its center was. But there also was ...