My Kyrgyz Family

Baian is Burul's son. Burul is the director of MHS. This night was a typical Kyrgyz gathering.

Every single one on the table should raise a toast to the birthday person - including little me. As far as I was concerned, older people raise a toast, but here every one within the exact 4 hours that we sat around the table had to raise a toast in turn.

The Kyrgyz people drink tea at dinner - and lunch and breakfast and always. They also drink vodka at dinner.
The food was great and it kept coming and everyone HAD to eat.

Mokhtar, Burul's husband had been in Armenia twice and is very fond of Armenia. He gave a long speech about his visits and missions there, precisely in Echmiyazin and Yerevan.

I told Mokhtar that my grandfather refused to believe my father when he told him that the Vatican was bigger than the Echmiyazin Church, he told me that any Armenian would refuse that!