Today is Teachers and Mentors Day, and it’s a big holiday where schools and many stores are closed. Yesterday we saw lots of people carrying big bouquets of flowers to give to their teachers or because they were teachers.
We’re really just doing ordinary things: walking around the city, eating, taking photographs, and shopping at the grocery store. But it’s so much fun to do those everyday things in another culture. I’m always curious to see what it’s really like to live in a different country and to get a sense of what everyday life—and the people—are really like.
The city is getting smaller every day as we get to know it better. I’m glad we had these few days here in Tashkent to recover from jet lag learn how to use the taxi app, and just enjoy things at a leisurely pace.
After breakfast at Bon! (Again!) we visited Magic City.
Tourism is so new here. It’s only been about eight years since they let people visit. Many times during the day people will stop us to talk. They are surprised that we would come all the way from California. They are eager to practice their English.
I got my hair cut here. Again, they were so surprised that I would come from America. They brought me tea and cookies on a beautiful tray with flowers. So sweet.
This was my dinner. Do you see how the half chicken fits easily on a regular dinner plate? Our chickens are so much bigger, which makes me wonder about the growth hormones—and whatever else we do to make them grow so large.
