Category Archives: Zieak
Beadwork
One of the things that I miss about living and working in Mongolia is the ability to create things on my evenings and weekends. I’m a maker. One of my first ventures into crafting came in scouts. I had a very strong interest in Native American crafts and picked up beading as one of the …
Amarbayasgalant Monastery
Amarbayasgalant Monastery a video by zieak on Flickr. One morning we woke to heavy snow coming down and so I got up early and wandered through the monastery.
Cocoa and Jordan
Thursday we picked up this little Siamese kitten from a friend. She was the runt (although not much smaller) of the litter. She was instantly at ease with Mitten who also seemed fine with the presence of a small autonomous toy.
Gay scout leaders
I wrote the comments below when I signed the petition to urge the Boy Scouts to end their policy of discrimination against gay people. For a decade I have been anticipating the scouts to change their policies. Some friends that are gay that have asked me how I could have been involved in an organization …
Amarbayasgalant Monastary
This week was our spring break at school. On Tuesday morning Pepper, Jordan and I packed up and loaded into a car at 9 for a two night trip to the Amarbayasgalant Monastary which is North of Ulaanbaatar. We met with the other car and transferred passengers so the only person sitting on laps was …
Hash House Harriers in Mongolia
For a number of weeks now we have gone for hikes with the Ulaanbaatar Hash House Harriers. I had never heard of H3 before coming here but Pepper has know of them for years. They are a worldwide group of self proclaimed drinkers with a hiking or running problem. We see it as a good …
A few vodka bottles at our neighborhood garbage pile
Wow. There is a bar near us that uses the same centralized pile of trash as we use at our apartment. We saw this impressive collection there. Mind you, they clean this pile every day or two. The Russian influence here clearly included introducing vodka.
Making Mexican in Mongolia
Pepper made toastadas for dinner a few Sundays ago. It isn’t as easy as it would have been in the US. The tomatoes, cilantro, onion, sour cream and lettuce came from Mercury market – not all from the same vendor. Then the cheese came from the grocery store next door. The refried beans and Corona …
A care package from home!
Because of some problems with my website this post was not published last week… We found that by having things wrapped that the customs officer is less likely to charge us a duty. We had two boxes at the post office today. One from Kevin and Trina held a great collection of batteries, plastic food …
I’m learning the metric system – again
This has sort of been like learning a new language. I think I started learning the vocabulary 30 years ago. Then in high school and college I jumped to becoming intimate in the technical details of the language. And now I am becoming conversational. An unorthodox approach perhaps but I am starting to feel bilingual. …
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