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Student in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

 

In Turkmenistan, the color of your oufit shows what kind of student you are. Red showed that this girl had passed the Turkmenistan equivalent to high school. Younger students wore green and so on. I have to give at least half of the credit (more like eighty percent to be honest) for this picture to my friend Matt who had the guts to walk up to this group of ladies to talk to them.

 

After having been rejected what seemed like a zillion times I didn´t even want to try. But Matt, being the charming devil he is, did. As an indirect result of that I managed to snap this awesomeish photo and at the same time learn that young Turkmen women are aware of Facebook but do not necessary have an account of their own.

 

 

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Uploaded on November 14, 2010
Taken on September 30, 2010