One Week Left

Roy-G-Biv ... host family time is almost up, about one week left ... I'm getting oddly sentimental about it. I'm gonna really miss my sister Enkjargal ("Peace and Happiness" --talk about a great name), she has been my anchor through all of this and the biggest help in my Mongolian language acquisition. At the tender age of 12 she is more of an adult than I am at times.

Practice teaching has been a trip, not overly horrid. I now know that I can do it, I will just have to work at it, but its fun. And I love all my students they are totally worth it.

In just about 2 weeks I will know where I will be living for the next two years and with whom. I'm really gonna miss all of my site mates. I'm attempting to memorize every moment with them. It's silly really. This parting aches me more than my leaving America. I think its the Mongolia factor. Everything here feels so familiar yet is utterly different than anything I know.

I've not been homesick yet, but at times I really wish that the people I love back in the states could be here experiencing this with me. It been only 2 months or so and I've changed so much. I can't even begin to imagine what type of person I will be come two years from now. Its exciting and frightening at the same time. When you live in a world where "real" showers are a distant memory, and a slightly cold drink is heaven its hard to believe that a place like America is real.

My life before Mongolia seems like a dream, or a minor preface that leads up to now. For all that I have a lot of new and frightening insecurities one thing I don't doubt is that I am right where I belong. I absolutely love it here.

Although I could do without the CBE (chronic baas explosions) O_o, hahahah, oh the glory indoor plumming would be.