Fili Park Has All the Bootlegs
You think we pay full price for CD’s in Russia? Ha! This past weekend was my first, and last, weekend in February where I wasn’t zipping off someplace. I was so happy to be able to chill in my apartment for the first time. After I spent Saturday afternoon cleaning…
Read MoreWeb Page Reactions
You oughta see what people say to me! When I first started this site, I was bored out of my mind waiting for the Peace Corps to get its act together, so I wrote a few pages late at night. Now that the page is almost 10 megabytes of information,…
Read MoreTake a Break at Dom Odaha
I went to a sanatorium but I wasn’t crazy My style of training sessions. Go Speedracer! Those fast stops hurt! This weekend, my division of Price Waterhouse went to a dom odaha (rest home), for the weekend. A Russian rest home is not where you send Grandma and Grandpa to…
Read MoreBurning Bodies in Bali
There are no cemeteries in Bali, everyone is cremated The Balinese are a Hindu people, though they do not practice Indian Hinduism. Maybe a thousand years ago they did, but the mixture of animism and Hinduism evolving in the isolation that a Hindu island feels in a Muslim country, puts…
Read MoreBalinese Art: Breathtaking.
The undescribable beauty of balinese art is breathtaking. Balinese have no word for art or artist, the beauty that they produce is considered part of everyday life, nothing special. Of course, I though it was quite special, actually amazing in most cases. Even the money is art! Every morning there…
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