Psalms

Kyrgyzstan is absolutely amazing.

We arrived around 3am early Sunday morning in Kazakhstan (spending our 4th of July in London. Probably the most unsafe place to spend a 4th of July as Americans...) and then took a short quick flight to the Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan, right outside its capital, Bishkek.

The entire country pretty much rests on a mountain range, with snow-capped mountains year-round. The airport (and actually where our apartments are) is in the flat "valleys", so it was a peaceful, scenic drive from some native Kyrgyz m-workers. Big G really took care of me too. As soon as we got off the place I got hassled by all these Kyrgyz men. They just bum-rushed me. At first I thought they were just trying to help. But then I thought "what a bunch of thugs". And then I thought "maybe they think I'm Michael Jordan." I was wearing a Nike shirt. =)

Surprisingly the people here aren't giving me too many double-takes. There were a couple construction workers that literally stopped what they were doing when I walked past them and stared at me. I mean stared... like... mad-dogged me until I was out of their sight. If I hadn't had such love from Big G and His teaching of who I was in His sun's eyes, I might've been offended. But I think most people aren't too amazed - there are a lot of tourists in the capital. Perhaps when we get to the villages it will be a whole new adventure.

I'm just sittin' at an Internet Cafe, unable to access Yahoo!... so e-mails will come soon. Everything on this computer is in Russian, but I'm startin' to get it down. It's prettty fun to read and it really isn't that hard! A lot of Greek letters. But the capital and the countryside is beautiful. I'll see if I can go into much detail next entry... as well as the first few days of teaching Greetings to the eccentric Russian kids. I only got so much time so, I'm out.

Stay tuned!