Where do I begin? My journey started in Chicago where I flew for 5 hours to Los Angeles. The man who checked me in told me that I would have to claim my baggage in China and re-check it through to Mongolia (that also means I would have needed to apply for a 24 hour…
The Last Chapter
I cannot believe my time abroad is nearly over, we were all filled with bittersweet emotions today. But before I talk about all that mushy stuff, I am going to go back in time by a few days and tell you about what has been happening. A little less than a week ago, I presented…
Sparking Streets
The other day one of us asked Auggie what he was going to miss about Mongolia, and his response was that he would miss the sparkling streets. I thought that response was hilarious but so true. For those of you that do not know, the reason that all of the streets “sparkle” is due to…
Children’s Day!
I’ll be home in 17 days… that’s crazy to even think about. I think we are all getting excited about coming home. Yesterday morning a bunch of us went to a yoga class downtown, and then found ourselves in a French man’s cafe for brunch. Although traditional Mongolian food is everywhere, the city has a…
Mongolian “Eiffel Tower” = TV Broadcasting Tower…? Oops
Yesterday was spent at the Black Market searching for souvenirs for people back home (I may or may not have been looking in the stolen section). I ended up getting some ankle bones and a bunch of candy. The weekends tend to be significantly more crowded, so I think I will wait till then to…
Just a Horse Inclined Female from the Midwest
The other night just happened to be “Roast Lindsay” night and I have to admit I couldn’t stop laughing. Everyone here likes to poke fun at how committed I’ve been to this blog for three months among many other things, so Jesse decided to write a funny blog through my perspective. Just to give you…
How are there only two and a half weeks left?
Yesterday Juli, Abbey, and I went to go scope out a place to get our nails done, which ended up being a lot harder than it needed to be because we had to walk into multiple places. The first one only had one lady who was only doing manicures. The next had a large banner…
A Carless City
Yesterday was the day of the International Ulaanbaatar Marathon. Most of the downtown area was completely blocked off, so the city treated the day like a huge block party. Everyone was outside enjoying the beautiful weather walking in the middle of the streets. Kids were riding scooters, bikes, rollerblades, some even had hoverboards. Music was…
Organs and testicles… yum
If there is one blog post of mine that you actually get around to reading, this is the one. It is hard for me to put these past few days into words. I decided to travel to the countryside and live with a racehorse training family about 3 hours outside of the city. Shortly after…
The Mongolian Voice
The other night my friends and I got the opportunity to be an audience member for The Voice. Many of you are probably familiar with the show in America, but here it is as popular as American Idol was in the early 2000s. We were familiar with the Mongolian version because our host families would…
Priuses everywhere!
Sorry for the lack of blog posts lately, other than interviews nothing much has been really going on. My translator/driver has a white Prius. I knew there were a lot of Priuses around here, but I didn’t realize just how many until I had to try and spot my driver in the sea of never-ending…
Letters from UB 