My Commute to Work

One of the things I love about working at NU is that we live on campus and my commute is very short.  After living the last year in Las Vegas and dealing with traffic every day, a quiet walk to the office is a slice of heaven.  I took these pictures on my morning walk with Yuki.

View toward sports complex from the front of our apartment.

 The first part of the walk is through construction right now. It is to walk around some road and utility work near the sports court and next to the new business building that is going up right now. [1]

Looking down the straight (to the East) toward campus.  Campus is on the left.  To the front and right are the dorms.

My office. It is right through the glass doors ahead.  It is the building on the left.  

In the winter atrium door won't open, so I'll have to walk to the front of the university to enter.  That is until the business building is finished and the atrium is extended.  Then my commute will be all indoors after a quick 50 yard walk to the business building.
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[1] You can see throughout this post that construction is a reality of life on campus.  We'll have to do a post on construction soon!

Subotnik - Civic Cleaning Day

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.

Late afternoon view of the NU.

Yulia went to the hospital to pick up lab reports, so the girls and I went to volunteer.

Working to pick up weeds and garbage at the front of NU!

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.

The successful work crew!