Holidays!

09:35 21 December 2008

Last night was a really fun time. Many of the volunteers on the lake got together for a holiday party- while they celebrate the New Year here with Santa Claus, there isn’t really a Christmas like there is in America (kind of nice that we get to avoid the over-commercialization of the holiday) so we decided to make our own holiday cheer. We couldn’t have picked a better night, and after the secret Santa gift giving from which I got a really neat old map of the Soviet Union, it started snowing. The snow continued for much of the night and the walk back to the apartment I was staying at was incredibly fun, a bunch of guys chucking snowballs, tackling each other, and horsing around in the snow. It was a great relief to hang around Americans, eat delicious chili, and play in the gorgeous snow of Karakol.