Frozen Faces!!

It's FINALLY starting to warm up over here! Hard to believe after wearing long underwear for over four months straight! But our faces are proof that we just survived one of the coldest winters in Mongolia! Check out this link by BBC News...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8509143.stm Some fellow volunteers will tell you all about it!

Dropping a Bomb

This will be a quick post- I was talking with my co-workers today about different ways to say "I'm going to the bathroom." After I told them the expression "dropping a bomb"- they have been saying it in mongolian and laughing. I asked them what were ways to express you are going to the bathroom in Mongolia and there are two new sayings to our western ears... one is "I'm going to go build a house" and the other is "I'm going to go look at the horses." The "houses" saying makes sense, especially in the cold months where construction is much faster...The "horses" saying makes sense in the countryside- if you turn away from the ger you always seem to see horses somewhere...:)