Totally working my butt of in Bishkek. Meetings galore, and I am trying to keep track of all my projects, which means that I am reading up for our next stop in Tajikistan, helping design the Turkmenistan country program, going to these Bishkek meetings, and still working on the damn report on midwives. I feel competent, yet exhausted.

I spend every waking moment with Markus. I obsess over spending the money to call Kir but I miss him intensely. I think our translator is pretty cute. I eat in a lot of resturants.

I haven't been in Biushkek since two years ago, on 9/11, which makes being here odd. I keep waiting for disaster. Also odd because my life was so different then - I was in Bishkek with BIO as a pretty unimportnat person and now - well, I am still pretty unimportnat because Markus is running this show, but I have a real job and stuff and I don't get lonely at night because I am too fucking busy trying to keep up with my job.

All in all, it's good and I plan to buy a carpet today. Bishkek is as pretty as I remebered it, and I really like the people we're working with.

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