Kyrgyzstan 2015: A Day Off
I’m gonna make this short…because we are exhausted. A 14-hour drive, a rural border crossing with a couple of minor hitches, and 30 minutes in the Tunnel of Death (seriously, Google it). Not bad for a “day off.” We...
Tajikistan 2015, Day 4: Graduation
If you’re reading this in our email, click here to see photos from today’s post. The day started as usual, with a critique of the students work before we headed off to photograph on location. Today’s assignment was to...
Tajikistan 2015, Day 3: Just A Teahouse
In 2009, construction began on a teahouse across the boulevard from the newly opened Ismaili Centre. According to a tour guide from the teahouse, over the course of the 5 years of construction, more than 4,000 traditional Tajik craftsmen,...
Tajikistan 2015, Day 2: Rudaki Park
This morning began, as did our last ADV workshop, with a warm reunion. Our students from the October seminar in Khorog had arrived in Dushanbe in the evening yesterday and this morning we were all smiles. At 9 o’clock...
Tajikistan 2015, Day 1: We Have Arrived!
At 3:45am on June 13, 2015 we put wheels down in Dushanbe, Tajikistan…and the new airport is fantastic! We are back in Dushanbe for a short week to host an advanced class for the students of last October’s beginner...
A Final Bow For The Tajikistan Workshop
After the long night, our 6:30 AM wake-up call made for an early morning. The normal routine…wake, shower, breakfast with the team, then jump in the car at 8 AM to head over to the Lycee for our last...
Day Four: Finishing Things Off
What can we tell you about today…we began the day on schedule, with the car picking us up at 8:30am to head back over to the school. Today was presentation day, which means that Fred, Wendy, Tony, and Mike...
Day Three: Dentists and Power Plants
For each of our workshops, we partner with a local NGO to help plan things on the ground. By working with a local organization, we have the infrastructure in place to help us make the workshop happen and who...
Day Two: Capturing Organized Chaos
Take forty or so adorable little gremlins (aged 3-5), put them in a room filled with books, building blocks, paint, crayons and musical instruments, and set a handful of incredibly talented teachers to shape their young minds…and you get...
Day One: An Introduction to Storytelling
(For those who read my post from yesterday: of course, as soon as we arrived, we found out that two of the teachers who had joined us in the previous night’s festivities were going to be with us for...