Miscellaneous Ongoings

JM- I went to the PO yesterday afternoon with my boss, a turkish guy who speaks mongolian fluently. The same lady was working and she again said there were no packages for us. As she turned the pages of the book, we saw our names. So again, we pointed out "hey! we're right there!" and again she offered no explanation or apology. We FINALLY received the package from Josh and Char (thanks soooo much!), which they sent out on January 5th. The lady said it just arrived last wednesday. It was banged up, the box was split open, and they had placed it in a giant canvas mail sack from china. We think we might like to keep that sack. No word yet on the package from Billy and Rose, but we'll check again in a few weeks.

This past saturday was a teacher's picinic, which was pretty fun. We played basketball, threw around an australian football, and walked along the river. The river was partially frozen, and so clayt and I spent a nice little chunk of time finding the biggest rocks we could carry to throw and try to break the ice. Good clean fun. Here are 2 photos of the place -- one of clayt playing b-ball, and one of the smaller part of the river.


Below are 2 photos sheridan just sent me from a while back. This is from the night I came down with tonsillitis. We were helping them make buuz, the traditional food. We presonally don't like to eat much of it, but during the tsagaan sar holiday they say you have to eat at least 30 or you will have bad luck in the next year. I can barely eat 2. But, it was fun to make them! All it consists of is a dough made of flour and water, and then ground meat (beef or sheep) placed in the middle and wrapped up nicely.