Going to the Country...

This morning we are leaving for 2 weeks in the countryside for Clayt's internship work. I am taking the time to write a short blog post because we don't have any hot water just yet for showers.

We ordered a new camera from the states and Wahid shipped it to us express. It hasn't arrived yet, which is a real bummer as now we have no camera for photos of all the cool stuff we'll see. We could buy a few disposable ones, but they cost about $9.00 each! Actually we had expected to leave Friday, which means we would definitely have the camera, but the plans changed and we had to leave today, Wednesday, instead, which messed up our camera plans!

Here are some of the places we are going to visit, all in the western part of Mongolia (the mountainous side!) : Arkhangai, Bayanhongor, and Uverhongai. Yeah, we never heard of them before either! We return August 1, and then fly out on the 7th to Khovd, a city (ha, "city") way out west close to where the Khazakh people live, and return from there on August 14th. After that, its back to English lesson training for the Turkish teachers, and then our school year will begin!

The summer has flown by and the weather has been really beautiful. Sadly, we've been told that it's going to start cooling off again in September, and be really cold again by November.

We'll post again after we get back, hopefully with photos...