On Saturday, April 28th, our friend Igor took us to the Pavlodar museum, which is sort of a natural history and history museum combined. It was really interesting, given all the different cultures and ethnicities that have called Kazakhstan home. We got to see bones of a wooly mammoth, and posters from WWII calling for people to join the russian army to defeat the nazis...after the museum, we went to a play at the Chekov theater. The theater is beautiful (think Lensic but smaller) and the play was wonderful. It was called "Funny Money" and we didn't understand a word of it, but it was hilarious all the same- great production, great acting, and the crowd loved it! Igor explained as much of it to us as he could at intermission. It was a fun day. I felt quite at home with Igor wearing the hat we gave him! We are really happy we met Igor our first day here in Pavlodar. He has really shown us around. He leaves for the USA (Ohio) in two weeks on a work program for the summer. This will be his second trip to the US as a student. He is a great guy, very smart and funny and his English is excellent! We hope he can visit us in NM this summer. This is Grove and me in front of the museum.
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