Joe Ragan

Many of you will remember that I lived in Karaganda from January to June 2005. It was a growing time for me for sure. I remember not speaking a word of English the first month I was here. There were only a couple of small grocery stores and one of the best [...]

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It has been very rainy here in Karaganda since I arrived 3 weeks ago. There have only been a few days where it hasn’t rained. It reminds me of last summer. However, it hasn’t been a cool this summer as last.
The main street in town floods frequently when there is rain and [...]

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Well, I wrote a post two days ago on WordPress. I hit the save button, thinking it was done. Well, I just went to my site and noticed the post wasn’t there. Now, I just realized that I never hit the “publish” button so it never appeared on the site. Sorry about [...]

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After several months off line due to changing servers, updating programs, etc I am back on line. While the site isn’t quite ready since Steve (host and web site designer extraordinaire!) is still making some changing, I wanted to let everyone what’s going on.
I made the “permanent” move to Karaganda on June 12 and [...]

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