almost done

I got this update and probably one more left in me.

So, in August I hung out at home and went to Astana too and didn’t really do much for the first 2 weeks. I watched a lot of Battlestar Galactica instead and I went into Kokshetau once to hang out with Hannah. The last two weeks though, I did more productive things. I went to summer camp for the orphanage out in the forest. Everyday I was in charge of the activities until lunch time so I planned a variety of sports and games that they didn’t know (dodgeball, Frisbee, etc) and in turn, during the second half of the day they taught me a variety of games and songs that kids in America don’t learn. I gave them my camera during this time and forced them to share it so one kid would get it in the morning and another would get it in the evening so they can take photos of all the activities since I didn’t want to do it and they just took photos of each other in like trees and flower beds.

After the camp ended, school started. The first day was just the typical ceremony. The second day, the weather seemed to acknowledge that summer was over and started to get cold. By the end of the second week of school it had already snowed. Fortunately, I get to leave before the advent of winter. School is fine. I’m teaching less lessons, since I wont be there for much longer and I decided to choose all of my favorite classes (except one- class; 7v but that’s because I teach 7a and 7b so it makes sense that I teach them too cause everything would already be prepared). On Saturdays I go to Astana for lessons at the President’s school and afterwards I have my public English club and then is movie night.

One week I went to Almaty for our Close of Service conference and it was the last time our whole group was together. We had a bunch of parties/barbeques and there were camels and nintendo64s and jell-o shots. All was pretty good. The last night in Almaty I had an epic Chinese feast with Sagar and Tobin for my and Tobin’s b-day and then I got a beer and met with Mike Quinn and we went to a club and hung out with other foreigners from Nigeria and then more PCVs and then there were some strippers which is always good when they just show up so you don’t have to throw down money (this was a normal club, not a strip club so my extra patronage was not required). Later on we went dancing somewhere else, I invented the cement mixer for locals cause they were confused what I was concocting and then I went to bed and rode the train all day on my b-day. I received texts from all but 1 Indian person in Kazakhstan (this includes pcvs and not-pcvs). I guess India really loves me, which I approve of. Then I had more school and that’s about it.

That’s the bare bones. I hope my grammar is terrible and I spelled half these words wrong, I’m not checking it.

I get home November 4.