I like food. Food tastes good.
Our puppy at dinner time.
Since the filming of this clip she has added potty training, fetching, and laying down to her repertoire.
I think we sang songs like this together for about an hour. The tradition is that when the bowl of airag (fermented horse milk) is passed to you that you pick the song and everyone sings together. The bowl goes around the circle three times. :) Kim and I ended up singing shakey duets of two hymns, The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven”, and John Lennon’s “Stand By Me”.
I tried not to be too invasive with the camera but as I pan around you can see how the elder hosts at the house sit on one end of the room (right side of the camera); the tower of bread, dried horse milk, and candy (the height is determined by the age of the host); the buuz (goat meat dumplings, on the table); and the traditional backside of the goat.
My beautiful wife has done a series of videos on some of her M*ngolian students so that we could, in some small way, share their lives with you. I would like to do the same with some of the foreign missionaries here.
This video is about Magda Verboom. She is the first, and funniest, Dutch person we have ever known. She has lived here for 11 years - keep in mind they only paved the road to our city 5 years ago and were using telegraphs up until just after she got here. She started and continues to maintain a school for disabled children in Erdenet. I won’t tell you too much more because this is her story to tell. Please take a few minutes to watch the video and if you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments section.
We took this video during a mild, -30 degree blizzard the other night. Come back here in 6 months (coincidentally right when we’re leaving) and the same exact shot will be vibrant, green, and 90 degrees outside. That’s M*ngolia!
Thousands of miles from any coastline, we taught the girls the patented Miskov shaka.
My beautiful wife made another video with one of her students, Zayaa, that I think is fantastic. I hope it helps give you more of a sense of what it’s like out here.
The M*ngolians celebrated their first Olympic gold medals this year. See how they celebrated. Also, you can see Kim do her best shepherding and see a couple explosions from one of the world’s biggest copper mines. Quite a diverse video, no?
