What day is it again?

Since there are no real weekends here for us, I always get confused what day of the week it is. But today is Sunday - I just remembered. The stores are open on every day of the week here. And my husband also works every day of the week - usually even more on the weekends, as his people often have more stuff going on then. I miss having a structured week. So today we decided to install our own weekend-day. It will be flexible - meaning no certain day of the week - but we'll try to have at least one day every week just for us, not having to think about work.

I feel that I have more energy now and that I'm motivated to get more involved now. We had planned to make a documentation video of the neighborhood. I'm supposed to write the script/concept. Right now I'm rather thinking about an experiment however: not we will videotape, but we'll have different people living in this neighborhood tape whatever is important to them. I think it's interesting to get their point of view, because I assume (and we already know from Philipp's research), that their view will be different from our's and we might even get new insights via this medium. I'm just not sure about the cutting process yet. With the cutting you always stress or hide certain things, because you make a selection of the entire material - the same happens with fades or background sound. So I kinda feel like the cutting should also not be done by us (although I love doing it). But with all the equipment and all the different people involved, it's not that easy. I'm excited however. This is going to be cool and something we'll enjoy as much as our friends here, because its something that will last, even when our time here is over.

Today I attached more pics from my walk through Bishkek last week. The first picture shows the two state guards guarding the national flag on one of the main squares called "Ala-Too" - one of the main tourist attractions. The second one shows the government building called "White House". Maybe some of you have seen it on TV in 2005 during the so called "Tulip Revolution" after the parliamentary elections in March 2005, when former President Akayev was forced to resign on April 4, 2005 after violent demonstrations and after the government headquarters had been stormed by the people. After that, opposition leaders formed a coalition and a new government was formed under President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who is still in office today. [Click here for more information on the "Tulip Revolution"]

P.S. By the way, my back is slowly getting better again. I'm relieved...