Kyrgyzstan: Second Eduction Project

My assignment in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan

After I finished my longest consultancy assignment of six months in Nepal, my next assignment was in to be the Assessment and Evaluation Specialist for the Second Education Program in Kyrgyzstan, a grant funded by the Asian Development Bank.

My first trip to Kyrgyzstan basically brought me from Asia to Europe then back to Asia. One, I have to get my visa to Kyrgyzstan through our managing contracting firm based in Berlin, Germany. The my flight was a bit routy -- Manila to Frankfurt via Beijing, then Frankfurt to Moscow, then to Kyrgyzstan. What was also memorable was I was travelling on my birthday. I left Manila on October 2, 2008, then was in Moscow International Airport on my birthday. I celebrated it with a chicken soup, that i was quite expensive, 24 Ruble. Anyway, I have to eat something while waiting for my next flight, a lay over of 11 hours.

Since, this was first travel to Europe, my flight to Bishkek (formerly called Frunze) was 9:00 pm, but i was surprised that by 8:00pm, the shine was still up... of course, the airport was also magnificent, since it was almost covered with snow that time.... they said it just snowed the morning I arrived in Moscow.

TO BE CONTINUED....