Dinner that doubles as a bank account (An Englishman living among Uzbeks)

[Guardian]

i have came across to an article written by a foreigner who is living in Uzbekistan. It's great fun to see our country with the eyes of foreigners.

Here i'll quote the article.

I've decided that nephews can be very useful. I've been living with my Uzbek host family for five years now and no longer find it odd to head off to the bazaar with a couple of nephews in tow to help carry bags. We live in the old city near the bazaar, so the walk through the baking cobbled streets past various madrasas and mausoleums is a short one.
I'm hosting a tashkil tonight and want to make sure I lay on a good spread. A tashkil is such a great concept in a country where banks are corrupt and usually cashless and all loan-hungry blood kin seem fitted with radars that tell them when you've stashed something under your mattress. Each of us contribute $20, quite a sum here, each month to the tashkil and then whoever hosts it that month gets all the money and buys something special, like a television, before relatives have a chance to borrow it.

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Chris Alexander in The Guardian Weekly

And your veiws please, appreciated:)
JOE:)

[lucky14]

Yeah, interesting point of view.

Well, I used to work as a translator/interpeter for one health project and through that work had a chance to observe many funny stories that'd happen to foreigners in our country. Our supervisor used to even conduct 'gaps' and she did call them 'women gaps' - gatherings for colleagues to get together. One day, when we were visiting rural clinics, the head doctor invited my supervisor to stay for 'osh-palov' which she kept claiming was almost 'ready'. And of course my supervisor (she is now back in NY now) knew about how 'osh can be ready' when actually it was not even cooking :).
So she told me to tell the head doctor that we were going to stay for plov because it was lunch time and we were hungry. Oh, you should've seen the clinic head doctor's face ;).
Well, you know, just Uzbek people should learn to be more honest and sincere because it is ok not show hospitality if you struggle for each non and meal to serve in your table. And not honest just with others but with themselves - that's very important and such a good feeling!

i have came across to an article written by a foreigner who is living in Uzbekistan. It's great fun to see our country with the eyes of foreigners.

Here i'll quote the article.



.........Click for more (http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/letterfrom/story/0,12807,1327459,00.html)
Chris Alexander in The Guardian Weekly

And your veiws please, appreciated:)
JOE:)