A bit of a non day.

I actually got up earlier than originally planned today as I thought it would give me a chance to chat to the Chinese (Taiwanese and Korean) guests who arrived yesterday, for Chinese New Year.  They live in Bishkek where they work as teachers, so speak Russian, but also speak great English.  However,   I was too early at 9, but when I went to lunch there was no sign of them either. Perhaps they left early as the weather is still bad.    So I resumed my plan of just having a quiet day still recovering, so have been reading more Conrad, who really struggled to write and editing the last winter festival video. For some reason the movie file is not working properly, though so I am not sure whether to upload it and I feel sad that so little of the English contribution is there, e.g. no dance or song. And the puppet play that is there fell apart for the  the kids are wearing costumes for another show, and they forgot their words.  (an hour spent trying to upload the video, also came to nothing.) Skype and the internet have been down most of the day, my computer keeps freezing and I seem to have another cold coming. So not completely abortive, but not exactly an exiting day. either.


Feb 8th spent another hour not uploading video. will try again.