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National Dress Day in Mongolia
It is Mongolian National Dress Day. Mongolian students of all ages are wearing dels and other traditional clothing. People from other countries are also wearing traditional clothing from their countries. Pepper and I bought dels this year so we’re not just wearing blue jeans and American themed sweatshirts…
Woe is me
I teach health. This year, one lesson I have planned for my 8th grade classes is about the importance of good oral hygiene. I plan on soaking teeth (animal teeth that I collected during fall break) in Coke for a week to show the results. But that’s not all. I have other ideas for demonstrating the importance of …
Winter break highlight: Leopards in Yala National Park in Sri Lanka
Instead of going through our winter break day by day as I have for some trips in the past, I plan to highlight some specific parts of the trip that were highlights. One of the things I was really looking forward to during our two weeks in Sri Lanka was a safari in Yala National …
Fourth Thanksgiving in three months
Sometimes you need no better excuse to have a turkey dinner than having a turkey available. A few weeks ago, when we made our most recent turkey dinner, I wove a few pieces of Mongolian bacon on the top. The gravy was heavenly. It is heavenly again this time. The “bacon” is much more …
Monsters in UB
A few weeks ago Pepper and I came across this huge sculpture of Predator. Fortunately Ulaanbaatar has appropriate street art for this situation.
Skiing at Sky Resort in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
This is our second winter in Mongolia but today was our first time going to Sky Resort. Our school arranged a bus from Zaisan to the resort which was only about a 20 minute ride. We arrived at 10:30 in the morning and there was barely anyone there. They use a neat RFID system to …
An awful experience with a taxi driver in Bangkok
It happens all the time. You get into a taxi and the driver doesn’t want to turn on the meter. But this time I knew how much it should cost to get to the market we were headed to. Mike and I hopped in a taxi in front of the hotel. We told him where …
Our second visitor to Mongolia
Back in June we had our first visitors to Mongolia. Mongolia is not usually a place that people pass through but they were taking the train from Cina to Moscow. Our second visitor went out of his way to see us. Mike planned a four week trip with stops in Seoul, Ulaanbaatar, Beijing, Bangkok, Sri …
Vitamins for our health
Since Pepper, Jordan and I have moved to Mongolia we have been making a strong effort to take vitamins regularly. We would prefer to get vitamins from eating healthy, however the cost of vegetables (especially in the winter) is quite prohibitive. The quality isn’t that great either. With the very cold weather outside we don’t …
Overseas teaching job search statistics
In early 2011, Pepper and I (ok, it was largely pepper doing the work) began the process of looking for teaching jobs overseas. I dug up the list of positions we applied for or sent inquiries to and we sent in a staggering 147. Of that, we landed only three interviews (a fourth contacted us …
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