Tag Archives: Culture of Mongolia
Where the Heck is the Summer Going ?!?
Yep. Its been a while. And since ever since returning back site, I feel like a tornado picked me up several weeks ago and I’ve just landed. Its all I can do sometimes to stare at my luggage and wonder where all this stuff I’ve accumulated over the last two years will go. Getting the […]
Mongol Voices (Part 1)
As much as I can write about Mongolia, as an American I can only scratch the surface on what it means to be a Mongolian today, the challenges Mongolians face, and their daily lives. So I hope this is the first in a series of interviews I’ve been conducting with counterparts I work with, to […]
Tsuivan and Comics
Food is the thing that sustains us , the simplest pleasure and goodness knows that every Peace Corps Volunteer soon becomes fixated on the subject, pining over the prospect of In-n-Out Burgers, and real coffee. Despite the constant fixation, I find my self lacking on being able to write about the topic, both in terms […]
Axe-Hero and Golden-Flower… aka Mongolian Names and Traditions
When I first arrived here, names killed me. Every time I was introduced to someone, they would whisper their names under muttered breath, a seemingly indecipherable combination of consonants. Of course it always gets better, and now I’m fascinated by Mongolian names, where they come from and how they derive themselves from multiple languages. The […]
A Mongol Deel Small Batch
SO last weeks online dress debacle ( as bewildering as it was from afar) actually reminded me that I haven’t talked that much about traditional clothes or even Mongolian sense of fashion on this blog… Lets Third Goal this up! *** To understand traditional Mongolian clothes, you have to understand Mongolian cultures roots in nomadism. […]
Tsagaan Sar Small Batch
Цаг цагаар нэг цаддаг Цагаан сараар нэг цаддаг Once in a while we will feast At Tsagaan sar we will feast Tsagaan Sar, or White Moon, is the name of the Mongolian Lunar New Year. Its celebrated one month after the first new moon following the winter solstice, kinda like the Chinese New Years… but […]
A Haircutting Ceremony and Some New Ideas
This past Friday, our good friend Mandy (short for Mandakhnar) invited all of the Peace Corps Volunteers in Zavkhan to her house for her sons hair cutting ceremony. Her son Togoldor, hadn’t had his hair cut since he was born so he was sporting some luscious locks since I had met the 3 year old […]
Mission Mongolia: Days at the Races
Finally, I have time to sit down and write a post about the two days of horses that we were able to get in during our whirlwind tour of Mongolia. The first day started with an early wake up call, the entire group piling into the car, and heading on our way to the race […]
Mission Mongolia: Catching Up
So I realize that its been a while since I last posted something (around four days… how dare I…) but I’m just going to say that was due to me being too busy. However, now that I am finally back in Bangkok, and have more reliable internet, I will catch you all up on what […]
Tales of a Traveling Aggie 