1. My beautiful, kind of comfy bed: 2 mattresses, 2 blankets, one pillow: living the good life
2. It's getting cold in Turkmenistan, so my host family installed a gas heater in my room. It's basically a fire contained by metal, and I am kind of scared of carbon monoxide poisoning. Peace Corps had given us electric heaters, but it's not sufficient to warm up my room and when I woke up with a cold, my family immediately installed the fiery, burning heater. And you can also see the bottle of pickled apricot juice opened just for me to cure my nasty cold.
3. More of my room. In this photo, you could see the electric heater I got from Peace Corps. Sometimes, it's used to warm my fluffy blue slippers which are imported from the states. And you can also see the food that has been brought to me: a lemon, banana, and clementines. Fruits are expensive, but my host mom spares no expense for me to get well. She is such a sweetheart.
4. The books and supplies that I have been equipped with to carry out my service as a health volunteer for the next two years. I am glad that I am settled in though because lugging that stuff around is no fun.
5. A bunch of us volunteers giddy and laughing after spending several hours in an underground lake.
6. Some warnings before we could descend into the underground lake.
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