Friday, August 08, 2014

Chum opening at the Cultural Center! (Chum = teepee)

Tonight there was a grand opening of a very special kind at the Cultural Center!  The Chum is finished!  There were songs in Nenetski, a Nenets dance troupe performed and we had reindeer (and reindeer soup).  What a cool evening!

 Nadezhda's cool braids!

 The dance troupe showing us, "the birth of the tundra"

 Victoria made plov (an Uzbeck rice dish) as a supplement to reindeer
 some of the church in front of the 'chum'

 singing around the bonfire

Nadezhda in front of the chum