Hello everyone!!!
I may get creative with my title someday.
The month of October had a few events.
First, I was able to go to the Preschool and watch one of
the doctors teach the kids how to wash their hands. I made some visual aids,
and they watched two videos from YouTube. Not my favorite way to do things, but
at least I got to do something.
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| The preschool. It is huge. |
Second, my small ger was exchanged for a regular size ger. I
was waiting to write about the whole saga, but it’s not over yet. On the 16th, my counterpart told me
that I was getting a new ger, in 10 minutes. I went with the hospital drivers
to my ger and watch them take down my small ger. It took about 30 minutes. The drivers started laying out the floor
planks and after an hour they got them in the correct order. Then they put up
the walls. After about 20 minutes, they realized they had brought the wrong
walls and they couldn’t finish my ger that night. I stayed at a counterpart’s
house.
The second day they were able to get the wall up and felt
and canvas put on. On the third day my shed was moved to sit next to the ger.
That is a Peace Corp requirement; I have not seen Mongolians do this.
On the 27th the maintenance guys installed my linoleum;
however there was only enough for half of the ger. Wednesday, of this past
week, a roll of linoleum was dropped off to my ger. It has not been installed
yet.
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| My Regular size ger and shed |
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| My outhouse |
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| My hashaa dog chillin' in the morning |
The third event was at the secondary school. My fellow site
mates work there and they were asked to put on a Halloween Party for the
children. Halloween is not normally celebrated in Mongolia, but with 141
volunteers throughout the country it kind of is. There was costume contest, pin-the-tail-on-the-cat,
3 piñatas, and lots of dancing.
Here are a few pictures of my soum.
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| The store where I get my grape tomatoes |
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| The Post Office |
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| The secondary school where my site mates work |
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| Gray building is my bank Pink building is where I buy chicken |
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| Where I buy vegetables |
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| The hospital where I work. |
