We're Here!

After many days of travel, a day or two in Korea, a night in a Ger Camp, we are in Darkhan, the second largest city in Mongolia, and the hub of our training this summer. We are staying at a hotel for the next couple of days, learning a little survival Mongolian and basics of service in Mongolia. We'll be off to Sukhbaatar for our PST very soon. Peter will be in Bagh 5, which is located shortly outside the city, and Cady will be in Bagh 3, very close to the city center. We'll take language classes, technical classes, and do cross-cultural training-- including Mongolian survival skills-- chopping wood, tying knots in Ger rope, and cooking Mongolian traditional dishes. Our host families feed us, house us, and provide some of the most important training we recieve. We are paid about $1.25 a day for incidentals, and I think if we're lucky that will buy us a coke and snack! We'll train in Sukhbaatar until August with one mid-break back in Darkhan for more inoculations (17 this summer!) and training. We meet our host families soon, and we're very excited!