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Posted March 4, 2003
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These pictures are also
currently on the front page: January
and February Pics
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Also on the front page
is an update of Amie’s phone number, which isn’t working right now, and her
address:
Uzbekistan
707000 Gulistan
Birinchi Microregion
Panyuhova Kochasi #10
Amie Van Overmeer
Amie’s: 011-998-672-27-84-31 --Not working as of 3/4/03
Posted March 4, 2003
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These are the links to
the pictures formerly on the front page:
Christmas
in Uzbekistan
Posted October 27, 2002
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I added some of the
websites of other Peace Corp volunteers in Uzbekistan to the About Uzbekistan
page.
Posted August 30, 2002
· These are the messages Amie sent on the message board. Since that is down I’ll leave them up here.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any messages that anyone else put on the board.
· Training Fun 6:12 am friday august 23, 2002
Yay for internet access!
I've been in Uzland for about a week now, and most of the time we've
been within the walls of a "sanatorium." I'm not kidding. That's really
what they call it. Plus, it's a fertility clinic.
The irony of me being at a fertility clinic hasn't escaped me.
Anyway, what we're doing there is training...classes about health,
teaching, language, culture, et. There are 50 volunteers in my group, and
the peace Corps staff is so excited to have us here. We're staying in
Qibray, about 30 minutes outside the capital.
So far it's been a pretty exhausting pace, especially the day we got
four shots. Ouch. Luckily the food hasn't gotten me too sick so far. It's
pretty good food, but I think they're humoring us...I'll tell you what
it's like when I get to my host family, which is where I'll be in a
week. I'll stay with that family for three months.
Today we're in the capital, Tashkent. Mostly they brought us to show us
the PC office and how to get around a little bit. It doesn't look at
all like what I thought it would...it's very clean, lots of trees. I
thought it's be much more desert-like and would be dirtier considering
there are 2 million people. We also went to Chirchik a few days ago. We
find out soon the city we will be in for 2 years. Most of the secondary
sites (which I will be in) are urban. I requested rural since I don't
like being in cities where I don't know the language well, but we'll see
what I get.
Learning language wasn't bad until they threw in the Cyrillic alphabet.
I've learned how to say things like tasty dog and dirty fork. I'm sure
those will be some useful phrases. The language is tough, but I feel
like I'm picking it up quickly. We're also learning so much about the
culture. Most women my are married, so if I speak to Uzbeks they first ask
my name and age, and then if I'm married. It's funny.
Alright, I better post this before my internet connections goes
haywire. Assalomu alaykum :)
· Here’s the second message.
· One more thing... 6:26 am friday august 23, 2002
Living in Uz. is fairly cheap. For example, the bus costs 75 sum, and
there are about 1080 sum to a dollar. But, phone calls to the US are
outrageous ($1 a minute) and we have $17 right now to last us two weeks,
so I probably won't be making any phone calls. I think e-mail and
message boards will be the way to go. :)
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Posted August 18, 2002
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Unfortunately, the
camera didn’t work well. Most of the
pictures didn’t work, but here’s a link to the three pictures that did work on
the day Amie left: August 13
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Posted July 17, 2002
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Pictures from Amie’s
going away party in June: The Pictures
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