Two days in Ashgabat for the conference before we take off to check out where we'll be living for the next two years...
My giardia has left me so I'm in full celebration mode.
At a Turkmen disco last night the DJ played a techno version of Pink Floyd.
I ate a big plate of spagetti with a heap of delicious cheese.
A fabulous hotel party and copious amounts of vod ensued...
The highlight:
Running out ten minutes before the countrywide curfew to find no stores open. A man on the street directed us to a dark opening in the wall across the street. We proceeded into a dark, narrow alleyway and found ourselves in the tiniest store on the planet.
Do you have any vodka? we asked the lady.
She nodded and crawled through an actual hole in her wall to retrieve the bottle for us.
We slapped some Fanta on top and it almost sort of didn't taste like rubbing alcohol.
Simply fabulous.
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Only my love has the balls to actually go into a dark alleyway directed by a stranger. lol
Wow a vodka tonic sounds good now :)
hey angela, its joalien. i realized just now that i had saved your blog in my favorites at work. your adventures sound very exciting and i wish you HEALTH and a happy holiday season! <3
wow, you have a way of making everything sound exciting. I want some giardia too, lol. not really. i'm glad you're enjoying it. your adventures are always a welcome break between the lectures that are slowly picking my soul apart. take care, and watch out for the other bugs that see you as a foreign delicacy.
-Kenneth
so i went to mail a little package last week to this country called *turkmenistan*
the lady at the post office had never heard of such a place. have you?
<3
Thanks for writing this.
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