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Jun. 24th, 2005 07:49 amAhhh beauracracy.
I've been trying to track down some statistics on music school attendence and curricula for a while now. I started my search in earnest in the beginning of June. After going to the head of one if the schools, the director sent me to the Ministry of Sport and Culture. My trip there was cut short because I needed a letter or introduction from the embassy/Fulbright. I jumped through that little hoop and brought that in and made an appointment with the minister, which I had yesterday.
Luckily he was helpful and said that I can make an appointment with one of the people in the ministry to get the information they have which is for the last 2 years. Unluckily, the info for everything earlier than the last two years is held in the Uzbek Central State Archive [cue ominous music]. The minister gave me the name of the director there and I trundled myself over to the Chilonzor region to see if someone could help me in the archive.
Nope. Not now, maybe not ever thanks to the red tape. I need special permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to get access to the archive at all. They won't even let me through the door until I get that (and once I get in the door, who knows what I'll actually be able to find). My only experience with the MFA is when they have stalled my accreditation process - getting accreditation took 2 months this time. I will not be in the country 2 months from now, so I really hope that getting archive access isn't such an arduous process. My buddy A says now that I have accreditation it shouldn't take too long.
I was really hoping to have these statistics before leaving for Tajikistan. Now I'm just hoping to have the process started for archive access before we leave. We'll see...
I've been trying to track down some statistics on music school attendence and curricula for a while now. I started my search in earnest in the beginning of June. After going to the head of one if the schools, the director sent me to the Ministry of Sport and Culture. My trip there was cut short because I needed a letter or introduction from the embassy/Fulbright. I jumped through that little hoop and brought that in and made an appointment with the minister, which I had yesterday.
Luckily he was helpful and said that I can make an appointment with one of the people in the ministry to get the information they have which is for the last 2 years. Unluckily, the info for everything earlier than the last two years is held in the Uzbek Central State Archive [cue ominous music]. The minister gave me the name of the director there and I trundled myself over to the Chilonzor region to see if someone could help me in the archive.
Nope. Not now, maybe not ever thanks to the red tape. I need special permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to get access to the archive at all. They won't even let me through the door until I get that (and once I get in the door, who knows what I'll actually be able to find). My only experience with the MFA is when they have stalled my accreditation process - getting accreditation took 2 months this time. I will not be in the country 2 months from now, so I really hope that getting archive access isn't such an arduous process. My buddy A says now that I have accreditation it shouldn't take too long.
I was really hoping to have these statistics before leaving for Tajikistan. Now I'm just hoping to have the process started for archive access before we leave. We'll see...
