The team arrives in Astana. I slept the whole way. It is 5am here. This city is amazing. All the major buildings, actually all the buildings, have been put up in the last 10 years. Before that the city was just a potato farming community. Now it has sky scrapers and Golden Man.
The first day we visit some museums and take a look around the city. Nothing to funny happened.
I am put to work on Monday. Once work starts there is not really any excitement. We go out to eat. I am tricked into thinking I ate horse meat. Thank goodness I didn't.
The funniest thing that occurred was on Tuesday. We all go bowling. J sees it as a good group building exercise. One of my teammates, we will call him R, says he has never bowled before. No big deal. I am up first. I get all nervous and roll two gutter balls. Dang it. R is after me. He finds the heaviest bowling ball the place has. Picks it up and raises it above his head. R then proceeds to move the bowling ball in giant circles above his head and runs full speed at the lane. He more or less shot puts the ball down the alley. I can't remember how many pins he hit because I was doubled over from laughing so hard. R turns around laughing and gives me the thumbs up and we high five. R's next time up he dances with the ball before hurling it down the lane. Every time he gets up he has a new move. During one of his performances he is so into it that as he lets go of the ball he slips and fall face first on to the ground! It didn't bother him at all because that throw got him his first strike! I do not think I have ever had so much fun or laughed so hard.
The funniest thing that occurred was on Tuesday. We all go bowling. J sees it as a good group building exercise. One of my teammates, we will call him R, says he has never bowled before. No big deal. I am up first. I get all nervous and roll two gutter balls. Dang it. R is after me. He finds the heaviest bowling ball the place has. Picks it up and raises it above his head. R then proceeds to move the bowling ball in giant circles above his head and runs full speed at the lane. He more or less shot puts the ball down the alley. I can't remember how many pins he hit because I was doubled over from laughing so hard. R turns around laughing and gives me the thumbs up and we high five. R's next time up he dances with the ball before hurling it down the lane. Every time he gets up he has a new move. During one of his performances he is so into it that as he lets go of the ball he slips and fall face first on to the ground! It didn't bother him at all because that throw got him his first strike! I do not think I have ever had so much fun or laughed so hard.
Golden Man is some guy that died in Kazakhstan a long time ago. The picture above shows what he was buried in. He has no ties to Kazakhstan other than being buried here, but he is everywhere. There are tons of statues of him all over the city standing on a tiger. I don’t get it.
Is there a Golden Man snow globe? If so, snag one for me.
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