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Consequently, A---- yelled at me and said that in azerbaijan women sit behind men in the car and that i ought to do the same.

Archive 2009-02-01 alexis 2009

CED volunteers often encounter the problem of NO WORK. as a result, the CED volunteer must make her own work. firstly, organizations in azerbaijan generally have difficulty thinking creatively about what to do with their volunteers. until the volunteer came, everyone had their pre-prescribed positions. everyone knows their job and they are not really trying to think creatively about how to do it better ... which poses as a challenge when the volunteer tries to shake things up. in azerbaijan, people really tend to stick to what is known: comfortable hierarchies, comfortable presidential families (they just voted to eliminate presidential term limits here recently and thereby chipped away at it's democracy because power here stays in the family), and comfortable sex role norms. why is this the case?

Archive 2009-05-01 alexis 2009

i haven't typed much because of this fact. i got the flu on the day we were supposed to celebrate one year in azerbaijan! woo hoo!!! at least it was the first time i got sick (maybe the last?) but man o man i wouldn't wish the stomach flu on anyone. some other volunteers have had this problem repeatedly. it is not fun.

Archive 2009-09-01 alexis 2009

i haven't typed much because of this fact. i got the flu on the day we were supposed to celebrate one year in azerbaijan! woo hoo!!! at least it was the first time i got sick (maybe the last?) but man o man i wouldn't wish the stomach flu on anyone. some other volunteers have had this problem repeatedly. it is not fun.

The Fire Land: stomach flu BLOWS alexis 2009

June the tippy top of a broken ferris wheel ferris wheel at night camping with loki and others forest in oguz the down times just get crazy ferid the FURY playing with the ming blingers advertising kids n guns the busy month ahead history of philosophy, professor chaz mathias, meredith (pc director, azerbaijan) us amb ... azerbaijan vs. wales world cup qualifier triathlon, ambassador, gazpacho another exploded lotus

Archive 2009-06-01 alexis 2009

June the tippy top of a broken ferris wheel ferris wheel at night camping with loki and others forest in oguz the down times just get crazy ferid the FURY playing with the ming blingers advertising kids n guns the busy month ahead history of philosophy, professor chaz mathias, meredith (pc director, azerbaijan) us amb ... azerbaijan vs. wales world cup qualifier triathlon, ambassador, gazpacho another exploded lotus

The Fire Land: kids n guns alexis 2009

June the tippy top of a broken ferris wheel ferris wheel at night camping with loki and others forest in oguz the down times just get crazy ferid the FURY playing with the ming blingers advertising kids n guns the busy month ahead history of philosophy, professor chaz mathias, meredith (pc director, azerbaijan) us amb ... azerbaijan vs. wales world cup qualifier triathlon, ambassador, gazpacho another exploded lotus

The Fire Land: mathias, meredith (pc director, azerbaijan) us ambassador to az, jeremy, and ME alexis 2009

June the tippy top of a broken ferris wheel ferris wheel at night camping with loki and others forest in oguz the down times just get crazy ferid the FURY playing with the ming blingers advertising kids n guns the busy month ahead history of philosophy, professor chaz mathias, meredith (pc director, azerbaijan) us amb ... azerbaijan vs. wales world cup qualifier triathlon, ambassador, gazpacho another exploded lotus

The Fire Land: triathlon, ambassador, gazpacho alexis 2009

A word on that: azerbaijan has one of the largest internal refugee populations in the world.

Archive 2009-04-01 alexis 2009

June the tippy top of a broken ferris wheel ferris wheel at night camping with loki and others forest in oguz the down times just get crazy ferid the FURY playing with the ming blingers advertising kids n guns the busy month ahead history of philosophy, professor chaz mathias, meredith (pc director, azerbaijan) us amb ... azerbaijan vs. wales world cup qualifier triathlon, ambassador, gazpacho another exploded lotus

The Fire Land: the tippy top of a broken ferris wheel alexis 2009