Author: Jim Damico

Yes, spring is definitely in the air. The temperature is increasing along with the number of pickpockets targeting Westerners with fewer layers on, even one’s wearing grubby Carhart’s. Don’t worry, …

Blogger tells me I have 1000 blog posts with this one. Guess that says something, not sure what. I sure everyone is still reading these. Last Sunday was Woman’s Day …

The holiday really began for us on Tuesday morning. Everyone was supposed to work a half day but you could almost feel the giddy excitement had on the eve of …

For Mongolians, the lunar year is coming to a close. In every home across the land, families are preparing for Tsagaan Sar. Everyone young and old are preparing food for …

As part of our social outreach, the English department is starting on a project to make a series of Beginner English books with cassettes or CDs to distribute to those …

Well, classes have started to settle down a bit. I think my student rolls have stabilized and my final totals add up to 113. This semester sure is a lot …

Wow, it’s been a busy week that’s for sure. On Monday, my classes started again. This term I’m teaching two Pre-Intermediate-2 classes, two Intermediate-1 classes and one Intermediate-2. Today I’m …

The New Year started off on a good note here at the Buddhist Center with the arrival of Glenda Lee, an introductory Buddhist teacher and yoga instructor from Australia. She …

I guess the new year was started off right with tons of pyrotechnics throughout the Ulaanbaatar skies. I didn’t mind except for the small group that set off another barrage …

I was trying to figure out how to explain the holidays here when I read in Leslie & Nathan in Mongolia this week (they are Peace Corps volunteers) and I …