A valuable commodity?

I have only just recovered from IWD but yet another holiday is on the way and this is a biggee. I was actually looking forward to celebrating Nooruz or the new year in the village, I think we will have several horse events for example at the hippodrome and singing and more beshbarmak, but apparently everyone wants to attend the event so there is no room at the Ashu for me so I am hoping  I can find somewhere to stay in Bishkek. I asked my students what they will do for Noruuz, and they said it was to do with being musulmen, but none of them are planning to go to the Mosque.  So it will be interesting to see if I can to see anything special.

As I never get to film the children doing their holiday performances I attach an extract from their rehearsals today.

I felt very tired today and down, demoralised really by some of the things going on here. My poor colleague in Talas, her host family wanted to move, so she was literally picked up taken to a house dumped there and left to cope with a new family none of whom spoke English and for a bed, just a lilo, not ideal. Given that one English staff member has left as a result of the Foundation not really delivering on its promises you would have thought they would make more effort. Things like that also contributed to the departure of the person who recruited us. Given what an expensive commodity we are you might have thought a bit more care and attention would be given.  I am still mad that having arranged for my flight home as early as possible to make it nice and cheap for the Foundation and having been told it had been booked the ticket when it arrived was for Gatwick rather than Stansted which is on my doorstep. So no chance of the family being able to meet and greet me easily and given I will have two large suitcases I have had to tell a very cash strapped Foundation (for example no money for the last two months to repair our colour printer) that they will now have to spend up to £100 for my taxi home.

However, I have just spoken with Nathan who was about to tuck into a pizza despite being in India and he is very relaxed and having a good time with Mooji and working in the ashram.  So that is good.