traveling without my team

dear team cevrenizdekiler!  (and other vast readership)  hello from moscow.  yep, that's where i am.  and in a few days, i'm going to kyrgyzstan.  yep, friggin' kyrgyzstan.

 

i learned the cyrillic alphabet on the way over, and i'm getting pretty good at it.  some words (casino, internet cafe, grapefruit, ruble) are just like english, just with funny-looking letters.  kyrgyz is a different language, but the GREAT news is that it's a turkic language, written with cyrillic letters.  that means i'm ideally prepared to be going there!  the numbers have almost exactly the same pronunciation as turkish, so i can still get one beer, two ikis, and three ewches.  i never learned useful turkish words like "hello" "please" or "HELP", but if the similarities of the numbers hold up, i'll be able to scold the cats and tell everyone if something falls down or blows up.  so i'm in good shape.

 

ok, gotta go.  these internet cafes are a bitch.  take care!