Carnival

I'm sorry about the delay in returning to this blog but I've been a little busy. The first thing that occurred was the yearly Carnival here in Kokhanok. Our population goes from 120 to well over 500 people. There's dogsledding, basketball games, target shooting, bingo, ice golf, raffles, banquets and bands playing every night until 2am. Curiously, a lot of kids are born nine months later.

The video is from the banquet which closes the three day event. The elders are asked to go first and just when they assemble themselves they do a prayer in Russian which leads everyone else to rise.