Sunday, 20 April 2014

Happy Easter

Having felt rough all week my original thinking was roll on the weekend so I can collapse, but .. my boss had called us to a meeting on Saturday, so then I started thinking perhaps it will cheer me up to go to Bishkek and even made plans to join in with a sunrise Easter Sunday service. In the end, just getting through has been an achievement. I went to bed as early as possible on Friday, planned to travel to the meeting with the owner of the Ashu on Saturday morning, then realised that my cold and the baby were not a good idea, so headed off to the bus instead, thinking at least I can travel up with the Head of the School. However, planting 242 trees and moving 24 beds had for some strange reason had an effect on her and despite getting up to milk the cow at 6.30 she was late and missed the bus, and so she went with the owner of the Ashu and all three of us were there on time and then had to wait over an hour for the meeting to formally start. However, nice munchies were laid on whilst we waited and the meeting was worth waiting for, because although it brought out some major tensions in the organisation, it really went through all the issues that the organisation needs to think about to consolidate and move forward. I shivered and sneezed through the day,felt rough and was incoherent by the time it finished shortly after 6 yet ended up the day suddenly heading a policy working group - help I do not think I have ended headed anything before, but it is just what I wanted a chance to be more involved, however, it has come just before in theory coming home.   I stayed the night at my bosses, I was happy to get to his place at 7 and just go to sleep, and sleep, and sleep. Then was about to tip toe out in the morning thinking all was silent, when my boss emerged and suggested breakfast.  It was a lovely spring morning and I really enjoyed sitting out in the sun learning a bit more about him as he normally lives in New York where his wife is currently studying at film school. He commutes back here to work so is always rushing around when I meet him! (I wish I knew where Kyrgyz people get their staggering energy from)  I then invested Bishkek train station to see if the train to Issky Kul is running yet  as I am going on holiday there shortly and then got my glasses which seemed okay, which was good because while I was waiting to try them on the lens fell out of the old frame which turned out to be broken, (I had only purchased it from them a few months go) so I will have to go back and get those lenses re-framed a second time since being here and sadly because using the new glasses with the computer is not working may even have to see if the new glasses can be altered. When I came out I wondered about trying to ring and see if anyone was around to have a coffee but realised that I felt faint. Whether it was the heat, the cold, or the new glasses, heaven knows, but several times I figured I am about to collapse so just decided to return to the Ashu and rest which I have done and I have just had some lovely skype conversations with the UK and Canada so it seems to be the perfect end to the Easter weekend.

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