The weekend before school started we got an announcement in our email - the university was going to hold a subotnik (субботник). This is a holdover from the old Soviet days when everyone would pitch in and clean up a building, school, factory, the streets, etc. We decided that we would be good citizens and help out. We really feel like we are part of the community and we need to help build it and to help it grow.
Nazarbayev University is on a beautiful campus that is under construction in a lot of places. We'll have to do a post about construction a bit later.
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| Late afternoon view of the NU. |
Yulia went to the hospital to pick up lab reports, so the girls and I went to volunteer.
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| Working to pick up weeds and garbage at the front of NU! |
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| All five us working hard! |
We were assigned to get weeds from the sidewalks. Sidewalks here are typically made of bricks or other stones rather than concrete, so weeds easily get in between them and grow.
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| The successful work crew! |
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