A huge perk of being an international educator is occasionally encountering your children while at work. What a privilege it is for Nadia and me to go to school with our children throughout our careers. This week, while walking through classrooms to observe and visit with students and teachers, and happened to come upon the grade 12 English A class. Ocean and her friend Nigora were sharing their analysis of a poem with their classmates. She was a good sport for putting up with a proud and embarrassing father. I also saw her at the Co-Curricular Activities Fair. She leads the AquaPonics Club at our school. I am happy she shares my passion for ecology and conservation.
It was a short week with Monday a holiday for Uzbek Independence Day. The weather has been perfect so far in September without the usual suppressing heat of late summer/early autumn. Nadia is teaching kindergarten this year and enjoys her students. We ended the week by hosting the school leadership team. I was delighted to have the sounds of younger children running around the house. We sometimes miss the days of caring for our kids. Ocean ate with us and then went to the movies with her friends.
I am happy for Tashkent’s growing economy to lift many people’s living standards. However, one of the downsides is the growing traffic in the city. The number of cars on the streets has increased many times. City officials are trying to keep up with improved intersection traffic flows, more roads, etc., but it is tough to handle just such a huge increase in volume. I was caught in a traffic jam for 5-10 minutes the other day, coming home from school. One of the challenges in our district of Mirabad is the limited roads going over/under the railway that bisects the district. I hope they find more paths over this obstacle.
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