Wouldn't you be a Vegetarian?

This is why we don't eat much meat here.

Exciting News - Clayton is now a published author!!! Here is a link to an article he wrote for Mercy Corp's Website! His supervisors were pleased with what he wrote, and changed almost nothing in his content! Check it out and send a congrats his way! Tsagaan Sar Market article

So, here are some various photos that we wanted to show you all. By the way, a big thanks to Kenny and family for the package of goodies that arrived today. For those of you keeping track - it was sent by air mail and they were told it would arrive in 4 to 6 days, and it arrived in 13. It was also under 8 lbs. and we're told that the heavier it is, the longer it will take.

Last week was english week at school. As 2 of the three English teachers, we were involved in the planning and performing for all of the activities. Below you can see a giant word search I created (took me 3 hours), and 2 photos from the "Knowlege Bowl Competition" which Clayt wrote all of the questions for and was also the MC for the event. It was a big success, and just today the school director called us into his office to give us "achievement certificates" in appreciation of our hard work in making English Week something fun for the kids. We are so awesome. We rock Mongolia.



Here is a closeup of the wood we were given to heat our Ger. We loved how there were still door hinges attached and nails sticking out all over the place.

Here is a giant statue of Chinngis Khan being built out in the middle of nowhere. The only ones around besides us when we took this picture were three scrappy dogs, one which excitedly jumped up on all of us one at a time.

And, here is an exciting find from terelj - a jaw bone (?) with some teeth. We didn't take a photo because it is so rare to see this, we took the photo becuase we see this sort of thing a lot.