Bishkek at its finest 2

There are some interesting flourishes of beauty around town here.  In several places, we have fancy sidewalk tiles like here

And our street lights are rare and beautiful

Bishkek is, in many ways, a very beautiful city.  Here is a snapshot from one of our many park/open spaces clustered around the downtown area.  Those little robot things are trashcans - probably the biggest culture shock when moving in between Ithaca and NYC over the last year years, was the lack of public waste bins in Ithaca.

ALA-TV 2

I don't want to alarm anyone but the Yankees were on my TV today.  Seriously.  The NY Yankees.  There were even a few despondent Red Sox fans peering out of the TV at me.  Mariano Rivera was pitching, so I assumed this could be a game, oh, let's see, anytime between yesterday and 1995.  Turns out it was yesterday's game, or maybe even live?  Wow.
New addition to the TV sports line up, besides the Track and Field World Championship - Men and Women's Field Hockey on station "EURO SPORT."  Euro Sport, a compassionate station, they literally (!) ran an ad saying "Women's Sport - All emotion, all the time."

ALA-TV

Sports on TV here lately
1.  The Western Southern Open???
Tennis from Cinncinatti?  I can't even spell that right and I don't care.

2.  Premier league, Bundesleague and Russian League
Makes sense.  You can tell if it's Russian League because the grass is torn up.

3.  Rugby from Australia
I don't understand when they have to give up the ball to the other team

4.  Euroleague Basketball
Looks like a lot of Americans.