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Welcome to the Uzbekistan country group! Let's share information about what it is like to visit and live in Uzbekistan. Ask your questions about Uzbekistan here!
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Exchange or Study-Abroad Programs for Uzbekistani Citizens 6 Replies
What are some of your recommendations for exchange or study-abroad programs for Uzbekistani citizens? Add your contributions or additional questions below, and we will update the discussion! Continue
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Started by Community Manager. Last reply by Hamroz Abduhoshimov Apr 17.
Exchange or Study-Abroad Programs to Uzbekistan 1 Reply
What are some of your recommendations for exchange or study-abroad programs to Uzbekistan? Add your contributions or additional questions below, and we will update the discussion! Continue
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Started by Community Manager. Last reply by Lena (Team Member) Mar 21.
Advice by City: Tashkent 3 Replies
What are the top places visitors should see in Tashkent? Not just touristy places, but fun local places that are worth checking out (restaurants, stores, city sights, etc). Leave your recommendations…Continue
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Started by Community Manager. Last reply by Hamroz Abduhoshimov Mar 19.
Let's learn and apply US experience in...
Dear members,Please, follow below link and share your thoughts. If you have any interest in joining and supporting the activities, you are more than welcome.istiqbol.blogspot.comBest wishes and Happy…Continue
Started by Mirjahon Turdiyev Mar 16.
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Comment by Hamroz Abduhoshimov on May 4, 2012 at 5:01am
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Hi Haider,
Good to hear such a nice words from you! Thank you :)
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Comment by Haider Ali Novien on May 3, 2012 at 4:33am -
I love Uzbekistan
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Hi Kristina!
First of all, welcome to community group Uzbekistan. Here, in our group you can get information about Exchange Programs, new projects and news in Uzbekistan. Please see discussions above and hopefully you'll join some of them. As a citizen of Uzbekistan I hope to see your contribution to our group discussions. You can also share culture of your home town since it's interesting to others including me :)
When it comes to your question, this is great to know that you are interested in YEO. However, I'm afraid the program has not launched yet in this year.
There are other exchange programs to study in the USA of course if you are eligible. Please see the links, hopefully you'll find them helpful. PLease let me know if you have any questions as I'm here to help.
Hamroz
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Comment by Kristina Gritsaeva on April 10, 2012 at 2:55pm -
I want to know all about YEO!Please,help me!
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I have browsed some official sites of Indonesian Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. What I found out is they offer language courses at the Caraka Libarari of the Indinesian Embassy in Tashkent. Students have opportunity both to learn Indonesian language and culture. Also scholarships offered on behalf of republic of Indonesia is very good chance to learn about your culture!
I'll let you know more about our culture when i'm available, ok?
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Comment by Ratu Dwinda Nariswari on April 5, 2012 at 7:29am -
Hamroz, I know that our country have a equation which is we are muslim country. So, it would be easier to make communication between Indonesia and Uzbekistan. What I know is our country will build University together in Indonesia and Uzbekistan. We both know about the same religion in our country but, I am wondering more about Uzbekistan people and cultures. Well, the picture that you've shown is so interesting. Wow, They cook Sumalyak in a large frying pan and dancing.
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Welcome to the newest member of our Uzbekistan group: Bhawna.
We are glad to see you in our group. We know you as an active community leader on ExchangeConnect. Hopefully you don't mind sharing your ideas on the group wall and joining to the discussions posted above. Enjoy :)
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Welcome to the newest members of our Uzbekistan grouo: Ratu and Gabriel. We are glad to have you in our community group. Hopefully you will enjoy learning Uzbek culture and joining some of the discussions posted above!
Ratu, as you know, most of the population in Uzbekistan are muslims, and like Indonesians we also use the same words to greet. And in my opinion, our cultures are closer than they seem to us :)
Gabriel, my community leader friend, I see that you are doing quite good with your groups. I see that i should learn a lot from you guys.Overall, i like to find similiarities between cultures rather than differences. Please feel free to share your ideas here if you know any similiarities between Uzbek and your countries' culture!
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Welcome to the newest members of our Uzbekistan group: Mirjakhon, Aziz, Vova and Gavhar. As an Uzbekistan residents, we'd love to hear your input on some of the forum discussions above. Happy Navruz to all!
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Navruz-National Holiday of Uzbekistan
In Persian, Navruz means “new day”, or “a new day of the new year”, to be precise. This day is celebrated on March 21st, which is on the day of vernal equinox, and it symbolizes the beginning of a calendar year in such countries as Iran, Afghanistan, in Kurdish regions of Iraq and Turkey, as well as in some countries of Central Asia. In Uzbekistan Navruz is considered to be a state holiday, however the official New Year Day is celebrated in accordance with the European calendar. At present hundreds of millions of people throughout Occidental and Central Asia, Near and Middle East celebrate the ancient holiday of Navruz. Sometimes it is mistakenly related to Muslim holidays. And though the holiday is really celebrated throughout the Muslim world, it has nothing to do with Islam.
As any celebration of the new year day, Navruz is, first of all, a merry festival. But unlike European New Year Day, Navruz is celebrated in the daytime.
Various and plentiful meal is the height of the festival, which is held in the hope of the coming profitable and bumper-crop year. On the day of the festival different national dishes are served up: pilov (meat dish with rice), shurpa (vegetable soup), boiled mutton or beef, kuk-samsa (patty with spring onions) and sweet nishalda (dessert made of eggs whisked with sugar).
But the culmination of the holiday is "sumalyak", which tastes like molasses-flavored cream of wheat and is made from flour and sprouted wheat grains. Sumalyak is cooked slowly on a wood fire, sometimes with the addition of spices. Sprouted grain is a symbol of life, heat, abundance and health. It is a ritual meal, which citizens of our republic can taste once a year, whereas the guests, very likely, can do it once in their life. Cooking of sumalyak as an ancient ritual has its own peculiarities; traditionally only women used to make it. It is notable that sumalyak-making process is accompanied by women’s singing of special short verses, dancing, joking, telling either true or cock-and-bull stories. The ready-to serve sumalyak becomes a good treat for relatives, guests and neighbours. Local people believe that it is a good omen if you find a small stone in your sumalyak dish: it means you will be lucky and healthy till the next Navruz.
On 21st of March, people in Uzbekistan get together go out to national parks and concerts organized by the government. Also mahallas (group of tenants living in the same area) can celebrate the festival themselves by organizing parties for poor people in mahalla, giving gifts to them and etc. All streets decorated in holiday spirit.
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