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Ivory Pomegranate
ivorypomegranate.com
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20-something girl and her dashing husband move to Kyrgyzstan. Loves photography, baking, and hunting for Soviet kitsch in the local bazaar.
#116863 in All , #7349 in Personal

Real Life House Hunters: Best of the Worst

Gold tunduk chandeliers? Offices with showers? Marble staircases? Houses only half-constructed? All of the above. Even though there were a few gems in our search for a new house/office, the majority ...

7 h ago

Real Life House Hunters: Top 3

Ten houses in two days. We saw ten houses in two days. There is definitely an art to being able to soak in the layout and character of a house after only a ten-minute walk-through, and I found myself...

2 days ago

Real Life House Hunters: the backstory

We’re moving! After nearly a year living in the same apartment (more than a year in the same courtyard), Farrell and I are shifting ourselves and the office to a brand new location. But it̵...

4 days ago

my cost of living in Kyrgyzstan

Farrell and I came to Kyrgyzstan with a nice bit of savings, which we sadly watched dwindle away while getting the business started. With some (very big) changes coming up in my life in Bishkek, I fi...

15 feb 12

doughnut break

When it rains, it pours. I have a recent blog draft outlining my fears that things at the company were fizzling out and it might be signaling the possible end to Kirstin in Kyrgyzstan. Then we starte...

02 feb 12

Big Announcements

Just a quick post about some big news. I’m so ridiculously excited to have been chosen as a Glimpse Correspondent for Spring 2012! As a photo correspondent I will produce two photo essays that ...

24 jan 12

Crossing borders

Here are some photos from the second (and last) of my field trips with the photojournalism students from the University of Nebraska. This time we met up at 8am to go stand in the freezing cold at the...

20 jan 12 1 person likes this

on assignment in Tuz

Recently, a group of photojournalism students from the University of Nebraska come to Kyrgyzstan for three weeks for what must be the coolest class assignment ever. Through my connections at AUCA, I ...

17 jan 12

Diversity Festival

On December 16, a friend and I went “on assignment” to an annual festival that celebrates the diverse group of ethnicities that call Kyrgyzstan home. It was hosted in the Kyrgyz Drama The...

15 jan 12

How to survive a Bishkek winter power-outage

Temperatures have dropped again in Bishkek, another sign that winter is most definitely sticking around, despite certain predictions that Kyrgyzstan wouldn’t get a winter this year. With decrea...

11 jan 12

Candy Christmas

(the title is shamelessly stolen from an email written by a good friend about her envy-inducing Southeast Asian Adventure.) These are facts about Kirstin: - She loves to cook and bake and eat - She d...

06 jan 12

2012 resolutions

I think I did a decent job keeping up with my resolutions. All things considered, I’m achieving many things that weren’t on the list. For example, I’m earning a salary from the busi...

04 jan 12

2011 in photos

January. Watching the Ak Maral dancers perform at the Bishkek Philharmonic. February. Farrell and I take a short trip to Osh to interview journalists for a research project on Kyrgyz media. March. I ...

02 jan 12

Celebrating the New Year in Bishkek

Happy New Year! For the second time, I celebrated in Bishkek, surrounded by friends, food, and my wonderful husband. Just like my Christmas trip to Chon-Kemin, I was really happy to spend this time o...

01 jan 12

Christmas in Chon Kemin… again

Farrell and I spent Christmas weekend in Chon-Kemin again, this time in a different guesthouse located in a similarly quiet and small village next to the one we stayed in last year. The crowd was dif...

29 dec 11

winter will not? winter is.

The temperature in Bishkek today reached an astoundingly chilly high of -16 degrees (Celsius). Snow fell steadily all of yesterday, although when the weather is this cold, I suppose it won’t ha...

19 dec 11

my intro to Kyrgyz pop music

On November 27, I attended a concert in Bishkek that was organized by the Kyrgyz branch of the Red Crescent for HIV/AIDS awareness. As of now, I’m pretty lost when it comes to knowing who’...

14 dec 11

Bride Napping is not Kyrgyzstan

Recently the topic of bride napping has been coming up in the news more than usual (see the Washington Times, Telegraph). Now with the release of a five-part documentary from Vice, the topic is getti...

08 dec 11

the longer i’m in Bishkek, the less ______

The longer I’m in Bishkek, the less I write about it. It’s not that I no longer have things to say, but there’s a specific concern that takes over when it comes time to hit “p...

04 dec 11

Thankful in Bishkek

I’m thankful… …for many things. …for being done with that gigantic market research project that took over my life for 2+ months. …for the new and exciting projects IR...

25 nov 11

Winter in Bishkek

Good morning, Bishkek! Here are a few inches of snow for you. But Mamajan doesn’t care.

15 nov 11

a long way to see eagles

Like many of my mini-trips around Kyrgyzstan, I boarded a marshrutka full of friends and friends of friends at an unreasonably early hour, not quite sure where we were going or what we were actually ...

13 nov 11

watching myself on TV

I thought about never watching it. I was worried that all the ridiculousness that happened over the three days of filming in Bishkek and one day in DC would be a half-hour of embarrassing nonsense. S...

06 nov 11

lately

Lately I’ve been tirelessly trudging through all the (mostly incoherent) words the internet has to offer on telecommunications in Central Asia. The project is in the final stretch and I’m...

03 nov 11

brief election observations

I’ve tried my best in recent weeks to stay informed about the candidates running for president in Kyrgyzstan’s upcoming election. It’s proven difficult, as there are 20+ candidates ...

26 oct 11

where is home?

I will always be an outsider in Kyrgyzstan. I will always have to justify, even defend, my presence here. But for now, despite the occasional unwelcome feelings, Bishkek is my home. I’m immedia...

14 oct 11

highlights from Colorado

First! Thank you for all of the wonderful words and unnecessary (but totally flattering) compliments being said about the House Hunters episode! Apparently you all think I’m cute and adventurou...

02 oct 11

hello, new readers!

Our big television debut on House Hunters International is tomorrow night, and the amount of press we’re getting for it is just really overwhelming! So I thought I’d write a bit of an int...

28 sep 11

my 7 links

I had seen this thing popping up on several blogs and assumed I would not get involved due to the fact that I mostly just ramble about life, my cat, and You-said-where-istan. Or I post pictures. But ...

19 sep 11

Goals for 2011 {update}

Remember January? Remember when we were all full of hope at the empty slate that the beginning of a new year presented to us? So we made goals and wrote down the things we hoped to fulfill during the...

17 sep 11

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