Random Things!

Our "Harvest Days" Trade Fair was on Friday - Sunday and our clients made over 7 million tugriks (about $7,000) in total. It was a really successful fair, and our clients had learned a lot about marketing and promoting your products. One client even packaged her vegetables as "salad in a bag" with a recipe!

Sliced bread is a new thing here.

Star Wars has lots of Mongolian themes in it. The traditional dress is very similar, and the Ewoks even speak some Mongolian in the movie, so if you want to hear the language we are speaking/learning here-- think about how the Ewoks sounded! We're actually learning Ewokian!

I got to ride a camel on Friday! Also, in Mongolia, they play polo on camels.



Our apartment is the on the highest hill in town. When we look out of our window, we see mountains and a beautiful view of the Mongolian steppe.

Darkhan has hidden gems everywhere. I found a cheeseburger on a menu the other day! It turned out to be a mutton burger with ketchup. Not so good.

Peter's students are just beginning to arrive in Darkhan for University, even though classes started August 27th....

To say hello in Mongolian, it's "Sain Bain Uu?" If you accidentally say "Sain Bann Uu?" you've just asked someone how they are defecating. It's a very hard language.

That's all from here for now.