Yesterday Memet, one of my Uyghur friends, took me on an excursion out to the countryside just to show me what it was like. When I asked him if he’d ever visited out there, he said no, but it didn’t matter, since all Uyghur farmers were hospitable. I must admit that I was a little […]
“U nema?” (What’s that?)
“Khoy bahsh.” (Sheep head.)
Gales of laughter.
This was my experience yesterday when I went to town with three Uyghur friends of mine who are undergraduate students at Kashgar Teachers College, where I’m studying the Uyghur language. On our way back to the college, we walked past a cart full of severed sheep heads, […]
A few days ago I decided it was time to get a haircut (There is less to cut all the time, but the strands still hanging on need to get cut every now and then), and I wanted to make it into a language opportunity as well, so I asked my Uyghur teacher to take […]
To the southwest of Kashgar is a lake called Karakul. In Uyghur, that means “Black Lake.” It is somewhat famous in this area as a beautiful tourist destination. If the road is good, it takes about four hours to drive to the lake. This past weekend I decided to check out the lake to see […]
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, here are 10,000 words for you to read!
Like the pic says, Welcome to Kashgar! I thought you might like seeing a little bit of the neighborhood…
This is one of a multitude of small alleys that twist and turn all through Kashgar’s Old City.
Speaking of the Old […]
Well, I guess today is as good a day as any for me to venture into the murky waters of blogging. Hopefully, this blog will become your window into my part of the world - Kashgar, China.
It would probably be a good thing for you to know at least a little bit about me, so […]
