Saturday, April 21, 2007
Whoo!
March
I seriously take the beauty of my site for granted. Everytime I leave my site to go to UB and come back...I'm always like 'I can't believe I live here'. This is nuts. There's more to it than that...but I'm really inarticulate. There are so many things I want to say....like profound philosophical things about humanity, the lightness of being, and all that crap but everytime I try to express it (via spoken words or written) it always comes out like... 'I like ponies'. Oh well. C'est la vie! :)
At the end of March I went to Khentii for the 2nd annual pig roast! I had such a blast! There were like 20 volunteers there...pretty sweet. See the pics!
April
After the pig roast, the Sukhbataar crew went back to the aimag and judged the English Olympics. Man. The Mongolians take the olympics really really seriously. Crazy. Went back to site....the weather has been fantastic! I haven't made a fire in quite a while. :) Kerri, the old volunteer from my site came to visit and I totally had a blast with her. She's trying to play matchmaker for me....maybe a herdsman is in my future? :) I found out that my hasha family's computer has Grand Theft Auto on it. Oh my god. Awesome. My hasha dog had puppies! She had 4 puppies....3 white and 1 black. My brothers let me have the black one because they know black is my favorite color... I named him Bob. :)
May
Beautiful weather still. I rode my first horse on May 3rd! Woot! I was walking with my counterpart and I saw a horse and I told her I wanted to ride one. So she asked who's horse it was and if I could ride it. The guy said yes and voila! It was awesome. My school is letting me keep the extra keyboard in my ger, so now I'm learning to play! I want to rock out and learn some Ben Folds songs. :) Been taking a lot of walks lately....my soum is beautiful.
Parties!
Za, so whether its birthday parties, a new house ceremony, a hair cutting ceremony, or a wedding....most Mongolian parties are the same. You go to the persons house. There's usually a raw sheep in the center of the table. The give you potato salad, ham, pickles, candy, and juice. The serve you a meal (in my experience it's always been soup). They pass around vodka and sing....a lot....there's a lot of singing. At the end, they usually give you a candy bar. Awesome. Lot's and lot's of fun.
Za! What else do you want to know?
P.S-- Congrats to all my friends who are graduating!!! Woohoo!!!!
I seriously take the beauty of my site for granted. Everytime I leave my site to go to UB and come back...I'm always like 'I can't believe I live here'. This is nuts. There's more to it than that...but I'm really inarticulate. There are so many things I want to say....like profound philosophical things about humanity, the lightness of being, and all that crap but everytime I try to express it (via spoken words or written) it always comes out like... 'I like ponies'. Oh well. C'est la vie! :)
At the end of March I went to Khentii for the 2nd annual pig roast! I had such a blast! There were like 20 volunteers there...pretty sweet. See the pics!
April
After the pig roast, the Sukhbataar crew went back to the aimag and judged the English Olympics. Man. The Mongolians take the olympics really really seriously. Crazy. Went back to site....the weather has been fantastic! I haven't made a fire in quite a while. :) Kerri, the old volunteer from my site came to visit and I totally had a blast with her. She's trying to play matchmaker for me....maybe a herdsman is in my future? :) I found out that my hasha family's computer has Grand Theft Auto on it. Oh my god. Awesome. My hasha dog had puppies! She had 4 puppies....3 white and 1 black. My brothers let me have the black one because they know black is my favorite color... I named him Bob. :)
May
Beautiful weather still. I rode my first horse on May 3rd! Woot! I was walking with my counterpart and I saw a horse and I told her I wanted to ride one. So she asked who's horse it was and if I could ride it. The guy said yes and voila! It was awesome. My school is letting me keep the extra keyboard in my ger, so now I'm learning to play! I want to rock out and learn some Ben Folds songs. :) Been taking a lot of walks lately....my soum is beautiful.
Parties!
Za, so whether its birthday parties, a new house ceremony, a hair cutting ceremony, or a wedding....most Mongolian parties are the same. You go to the persons house. There's usually a raw sheep in the center of the table. The give you potato salad, ham, pickles, candy, and juice. The serve you a meal (in my experience it's always been soup). They pass around vodka and sing....a lot....there's a lot of singing. At the end, they usually give you a candy bar. Awesome. Lot's and lot's of fun.
Za! What else do you want to know?
P.S-- Congrats to all my friends who are graduating!!! Woohoo!!!!
# posted by Kim C. @ 1:40 AM 
