KZBlog » complaints http://www.kzblog.net An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:31:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 You know it’s Nauryz in Astanahttp://www.kzblog.net/2010/03/23/you-know-its-nauryz-in-astana/ http://www.kzblog.net/2010/03/23/you-know-its-nauryz-in-astana/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:39:18 +0000 KZBlog http://www.kzblog.net/?p=2288 …When it only snows twice in one day and the temperature gets all the way up to freezing!

Everyone knows that Nauryz in Astana is always cold and rainy. For the past five years I’ve been here, it’s the same thing. This year, it was cold and snowy. Everyday this week it has snowed, and yesterday it snowed in the morning and in the evening. So please, can someone tell me when spring is coming?

Not til the 31st of March apparently.

]]> http://www.kzblog.net/2010/03/23/you-know-its-nauryz-in-astana/feed/ 0 New Years Decorations Are Up!http://www.kzblog.net/2009/11/24/new-years-decorations-are-up/ http://www.kzblog.net/2009/11/24/new-years-decorations-are-up/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:13:00 +0000 KZBlog http://www.kzblog.net/2009/11/24/new-years-decorations-are-up/ Just a quick note. While in the US we now have an unofficial rule that Christmas decorations don’t go up until after Thanksgiving and that stores don’t sell Christmasy things–trees, ornaments, Santa Claus hats–in Kazakhstan, the New Years decorations are already going up and the stores are full of ornaments and wreaths and costumes. And New Years comes a week after Christmas. So there’s an extra two weeks of this stuff. As an American, at any rate, that’s crazy! It’s too early. We haven’t even had Independence Day yet! But maybe it’s just me.

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