Archive: March, 2010
For some reason I am often invited to give a talk to a group of students. At first, I was in demand as a “native English speaker” and asked to meet with a class of English language students, so that they could practice their skills in a Question and Answer session. That was always quite [...]
A week has passed since the events of the Easter Revolution which took place on April 7th … and life in Bishkek is returning to normal. How can I tell?
The other day, we had a very strange visit from the tax inspector. Actually, there were two of them. It was obvious that they were from the tax authority because one of them was in uniform. Yes, tax inspectors here in Kyrgyzstan have a uniform. He also showed us his identity card, and, to be [...]
In English, we have a number of phrases which we use when we feel that we are being told something that is untrue, such as: having the wool pulled over our eyes; having our leg pulled. Here, there is a similar phrase which can take people by surprise: “having noodles laid on our ears”. The [...]
