Jun 23 2007
Raining, smelling of vinegar, and slightly cold
That pretty much covers how I’m feeling at the moment. I also have a slight stomachache for some reason. I’ll probably wait until the rain lets up to get the bread I’ve been asked to buy and go home. Yesterday my host family said that we were going out to the countryside at 5, but I didn’t think they meant 5am. Wooo was I wrong…quarter to 5 here I am woken up and bundled into a car with a ride that was kind of like the kiddie roller coasters at Six Flags. I have pictures of me looking at cows and holding a baby goat for next week, but the pseudo-highlight was the sheep that was hogtied and thrown into the trunk of our SUV. I went back to bed when we got home at about 6:30am and by the time I woke up at 10:15am or so, it was hanging in pieces in our house’s side porch. With a drippy nose.
This week has been exhausting - we had 2 hours straight of Mongolian conversation with volunteer host family members - it was rather like speed dating only much much tougher. I also ate a grilled cheese sandwich yesterday - I spent the first few minutes just smelling it 
My stomach hurts now, though, and I’m not sure why. I’m looking forward to getting home when the rain lets up. I also got to talk to Bonnie for a long time which was super nice and got a letter from her yesterday. Real paper is awful nice…I need to work on remembering to bring my letters to actually mail here.
Finally, vinegar - I bought some per my water distiller instructions to clean out the scaly deposits on the inside today and it’s super strong. Clean now, though.
Alrighty, back home - I’ll be closer in to a town for my mid-center days, although I’ll also be undergoing an oral language assessment next week I’m not looking forward to as well >_<
Oh, I also have posted some pictures - due to the vagaries of Wordpress plugins I’ve changed my folders to have only the Mongolian pics be public so that it displays right here. If you want the full URL though it’s this: http://picasaweb.google.com/charlener/RandomMongolia
