July 2008
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Typical Mongol evening
So on the way home from the market tonight something very odd, yet hardly surprising for Mongolia, transpired. Marielle and I were walking up towards our building. Presently there is a massive ditch running up the length of our district because there are pipe repairs going on so there’s a big mountain of dirt and then a 12’ ditch all the way up the hill. As we were walking I was...
“if you drink a country’s water you must also follow its customs”
– mongolian proverb
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Riots in Mongolia
If you’ve been watching the news lately you’ve probably heard that the Mongolian elections didn’t go down so hot. Our arrival to Mongolia was very busy and things had just quieted down enough for me to write writing you with everything that has been going on when this happened.
First of all I’ll just say we’re alive and well, the violence you’ve been seeing...
