After an eleven week hiatus I am back in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The plane ride over wasn't too long and I was able to get a little bit of sleep because I had 2 seats to sprawl out in! I probably won't be so lucky on my way back. I arrived last night around midnight and I spent most of the day just relaxing in the hotel, walking around the "Fantasy World" theme park, and getting a little work done. I just got back from eating out at the Tau Samal Cafe in front of the hotel. It's a neat little outdoor restaurant with a covered bar shaped like a yurt. For those of you who don't know...a yurt is a "portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia" (Wikipedia 2008). I ordered some excellent lamb shashlik - a perfect way to start my week off here in Almaty. In one of the pictures above, you can see the wood-burning oven where they cook the shashlik.
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It's so ridiculous that Andreys from Kazakhstan choose this template for blogs! My name is Andrey. I'm from Kazakhstan, Petropavlovsk. I study in Murray State University, Murray, KY
Nice to meet another "american boy!"
Hey Andrey - nice to meet you too! That is pretty funny that we have the same backgrounds for KZ blogs - haha.
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