I arrived in Dushanbe after a flight from Bishkek on Sunday the 22nd. The flight was delayed over 4 hours and the Bishkek customs agent tried to shake me down about my plastic petri dishes (Where is your letter from your employer authorizing you to carry lab supplies? But why would I need such a letter?). We had a wonderful dinner at a local Tajik restaurant and the women decided to teach me how to dance Tajik style with the local band playing in the background. Here I am dancing with Mijgona, Tinatin, and Asel. My friend Saidbeg Satorov has a video on his cell phone but we don't know how to transfer it to a computer (sigh).
