Traveling a lot!

I've been in and out of site for business travel for the past couple of weeks since my birthday-- lots of interesting trips, including an all staff meeting in the beautiful Terelj National Park, and a trip to a cooperative development informational meeting in Bulgan aimag. The Bulgan trip was my first adventure out -- and I learned a LOT about cultural communication and being patient and prepared for everything! This next week or so, I'll head to UB, the capital for a two-three week training with our advisors on Value Chains.

The Terelj all staff meeting was a great experience. I got to run a couple of sessions, including, "How to Utilize Your PCV" where we discussed some possible work plan ideas and expectations we had of each other, and for fun, a team building exercise called "Touch the Can" -- You can see from the photo below how much fun our advisors had doing the team building activities... however none of them are touching the can! We had 4 team building exercises that were "cooperative" games-- and in true competitive Mongolian fashion, we turned them into competitive games with scoring and a champion team at the end. We had fun though-- the 3 other CHF placed PCVs had a good time catching up, and it was nice to do some capacity building training with our advisors.