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 Сон-Куль The most important event of this week was the first trip outside Bishkek to a famous lake in the country, but first I want to talk about 2 things, first, finally, my coordinator arrived and we started work together. We were having only online meetings, which is not the best option to know someone else. I enjoyed meeting him in person, now I have a good feeling about our project and my staying in Kyrgyzstan. I took this picture in a village on the way to the Song Kul lake Second, last week I didn't mention that I did a reportage with another association. I was able to get in contact with the founder of this association that is willing to give a place to the homeless of the city, he was looking for a photographer to do a reportage about the situation of these people in Bishkek. With a journalist and a volunteer of the association, we went to look for the homeless and interview them to understand their stories and needs. It was an intense day, full of emotions, I understood ...

Bishkek I would like to share my experience in Kyrgyzstan with these, probably, weekly diaries. I have the opportunity to live in Bishkek for two months, while I will volunteer with a contemporary art association, if you check my profile description you can understand that I am a chemist, but I like to face my comfort zone and learn, so I accepted this challenge. For the next two months, I will live with a local family, a Kyrgyz couple with 3 kids. Till now everything is super, they are really welcoming and supportive. My first week was full of new connections and new things to know about this culture and the city. My volunteering activity at the moment is mainly getting in touch with people, artists or volunteers that want to join the project. In this way, I have the opportunity to visit the main places of the city and at the same time listen to a lot of nice stories. Under you can find some pictures of places I visited this week, I want to put the focus on the soviet architecture tha...