Jun 08 2007
being a Mongolian
I have 2 more days of training in my big 48-person group, then I go to my home stay up north. They’ve given me lots more stuff to haul around, including a pretty hefty water distiller, lots of books, and language dictionaries. I’m taking as many hot showers as I can at this hotel as I don’t know what I’ll have available with my host family. In addition to passing my language proficiency exam in about 11 weeks, I have to also pass a survival/practical skills test. This includes chopping wood, cleaning a wood stove, tying knots, being able to prepare for snow/sand storms, how to use a ger roof flap, being able to navigate around on microbuses, cooking Mongolian food, and other random things. I’ll be super awesome after that, I suspect… 
not native, but more country than some of the city Mongolians in UB.
There is a trainer-trainee basketball game in about 6 weeks and I hope to play in it and kick their (trainer’s) asses. I played yesterday and probably will have lots of bruises. The gym here is supposedly the fanciest in Mongolia - it’s full-court, has nets, and kind of a rubbery playing mat surface. Gotta run to breakfast…
June 8th, 2007 at 10:46 am
>I’m taking as many hot showers as I can at this hotel
Can you store up hot showers like a camel stores water?