Firsts Among Wintery Nights- Hello Spring!
Salut, Happy Leap Year! I love the city of Bishkek, a place that often feels like a second home. I forget how far it is from me; my sister-in-law has never been before. A bustling and more modern city than I first expected and much colder than my home in the South. We went to Bishkek for a training, PDM, or Project Design and Management. Over the next year until we finish our service, we are able to design projects and manage budgets to buy and supply our school with new things. Baktygul and I mostly want to work on buying new projectors, paper, laminating materials, books, etc. It was a three-day training running from February 28 to March 1. Before PDM, the volunteers in Osh came to visit Jalal-Abad, and we got to show them around the city, though Osh is much bigger than Jalal-Abad. Alihan continues to be a nuisance and a little devil but the cutest little kid ever. I brought him and Adelya back a kaleidoscope as a gift from Bishkek and within a day he had broken it into pieces. A