Answers to Your Questions

I'm so neglectful, sorry.

To answers some questions . . .

1. What is the weather like? It is sunny in the high 80s, low 90s. It has been raining quite a bit though. I'm told be my trainers it's been a cool summer so far.

2. Do I live in a big town? Yes. I live in what is similar to a state capital, however, there's still I'd be surprised if there was more than 30,000 here. There's only a little over 2 million in all of Mongolia.

3. What is my current location? The PC would prefer if I didn't post my city name on my blog. If you're dying to know message me on Facebook or email me.

4. What else do I eat? I eat a variation of mutton tsuvain every freakin' day. My host mom does give me grapes or apples for dessert, so that's good. What is tsuvain you ask. You know when you go to a Mongolian BBQ and you put the noodles in a bowl, then add a meat, and put one scoop of this and one scoop of that, and then they put it on that big grill, that's an awesome and delicious version of tsuvain. Real tsuvain is boiled to death and has mutton in it. They really like it, but I getting sick of it, as you may have picked up on.

5. Do I have electricity? Yes!

6. How do I learn Mongolia? I go to class from 9-1 Monday through Friday. I don't feel it's going well, but I can understand my host family as long as they are talking about food.

7. Do I pet stray dogs? No, they will eat you. If it is a puppy, without a pack close by, you can use get it to come close enough to you to touch it once, but then it runs away. They aren't use to that.

8. What does Camel taste like? I do not know, yet. We eat mutton. I've had chicken twice since I've been here.

9. Does Naraa like to touch my hair? She likes to comb my hair and try to put hair things in it. Her little hands are only big enough to grab half my hair though, so I usually look a bit scary.

10. So they wash their hands before a meal? My family does. I have heard other trainee's family do not, but mine thankfully does.

11. Am I sunburned? My chest is a little, but I've been lucky.

12. What do I sleep on? I sleep on a futon that doesn't have a mattress. It's pretty hard on my body.

Here are some PICTURES. . . I'm having issues with my camera, so there aren't a lot.

This is my twin home. The second window is my room, and the end of our house. The containers in front are what we put our water in.

 This is a layout of my house. As you can see it is a 2 room (not bedroom, just room) plus kitchen house.

 This is me at a statue of Chinggis Khaan's 5th wife. They keep telling me her name, but I can't remember it. It's a really awesome monument
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Sorry about the angle on this one. This was taken at Naadam, which is like a state fair only more awesome and for 5 intense days. It's a national holiday and everything closes down. They have horse racing, wrestling and archery competitions. The winners go home with big prizes, I'm talking cars and millions of tugriks (their money).They have a fried food called huurshirs, and they aren't bad. And they're easy enough even I can make them. Mongolian flag in the background, in case you were wonder what it looks like.