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10 Ways You Know You’re a Local in Tajikistan

You eat plov (aka osh) at least 4 times per week.
You talk on the phone using a just-below-yell voice and often hold your phone out in front of your mouth rather than at your ear.
You love sugar in your drinks and sweets at every meal.
Your speech includes a mix of Russian, Tajik (and sometimes Uzbek) words.
You avoid a cool breeze like the plague, for fear that it will give you the plague.
You place small plants near your computer to take away the machine’s bad vibes.
Dollars … Somoni … it’s all the same to you.
Vodka = good. Lots of vodka = better!
You visit the ice cream stand at least once a day (oh wait is that just me?)
You wear a full suit for all types of work, manual or otherwise.

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A recent article I wrote for The Heptagon Post.

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