You can still get bread for a nickel

So, Dad, I thought that you would be very excited to know that you can get a loaf of bread here for a little over a nickel (10 Tenge), but you have to shop around.

Today was our most adventurous day yet.

We started off the morning by going to the outdoor market withour friends Matt and Betsy. It was nice to go out with them, but the market was a little disappointing. We were really hoping to find some souvenirs to help our new child remeber Kazkahstan, but most things at the market were things we could get at home. It was cool, however, that it is all outdoors with small vendors so that everyone has a job.

After that, we found the big food market. It is run the same way, with small vendors all throughout the room. Several people will sell root vegtables, several will have apricots and nuts, several will sell spices, and so on.

We also found the big meat market. Just in case you were wondering about how we would figure out what each kind of meat was, they have the heads on display next to it. No questions need be asked.

After the markets, we went to visit JED, or, as you are all calling him, Baby Bug (thanks Aunt Sharron). He was full of smilles today and loves looking at me with his very big dark eyes. He is still pretty bald, but he looks like he will have dark hair. He is getting stronger and stronger. Today he even could push himself up when we laid him on his belly.

Later, our translator dropped us off at the library where we met with the group af students again. They were having a circle discussion (all in English for practice) about "Does Money Make the World go Around?" It was so nice to be around young idealists. The best part was hanging out with all of them afterwards. We had pizza with a few of them, and many of them walked with us for a long way. We learned more Kazakh words and they practiced a lot of the their English.

Karon