My Russian classmates. They are headed to Tajikistan! You can tell they are all medical people because they are eating their carrots.

Our Russian table at lunch time.

The cutest niece and nephew

"The Crooked street", SF

Picnic in SF

San Fransisco, baby!

This was so funny. I kept suggesting to this city dweller to experience suburban culture by doing chores like washing the car. She fell for it every time! "Lana, since you don't own a car, why don't you wash the windows, and see what is is like!" "Lana, why don't you pump the gas." (Look at how happy she is!)

California sunset. We felt like we traveled back to Uzbekistan with the dry dust, the Central Asian music we played, the fruit stands...

The party machine!

Eating pineapple Tamales with Delia at Chico's farmer's market. It was so fun to talk again about Uzbekistan!