This is the cleaning lady at the school where my host mother taught. It was taken in September 2004 in Urgench, Khorzem Region, Uzbekistan. I loved her face. The people of Uzbekistan were poor but they had so much pride and were so friendly.
I was visiting my host mom (a teacher of Russian) at her school. She and a couple of other tachers where cleaning their classrooms before the school year started. This lady, whom I called "old one" was there to help. She was the regular cleaning...