Turkmen Village Party

Hello family and friends! We apologize for the delay in our postings. We are no longer able to access the blogger website at the internet cafe in our city, so we can only post on the rare occasions when we are in the capital.

We are on our way to Nepal for our first vacation since we arrived in Turkmenistan exactly one year ago! We are looking forward to the break and a chance to be among mountains and wild rivers again :^). The big news in Peace Corps Turkmenistan is that a new group of volunteers will not be arriving today, as was planned. The Turkmen government has denied visas to the incoming group. Most likely due to political reasons outside of our control. We are pretty sure that we will be allowed to serve the remainder of our term, but we will keep you posted.

Joshua and I are doing well. We will try to post a video of a recent Turkmen party we attended in a village nearby our city. The internet here is slow, so the video upload may not work.