March 15, 2019 I started writing this last weekend, but I wasn’t able to finish it. With my teaching load, I find that I write much less than I could earlier in the year, but I am still trying to get out one post a week. This one is a little more introspective than I’ve … Continue reading Being an American abroad right now
Getting our hair cut in Ulaanbaatar
Hair cuts! I hate getting my hair cut. Hate it. Almost as much as the dentist, really, but for different reasons. It’s too much close contact with (usually) a stranger for too long a period of time, and I start to get self-conscious about the weirdest things. These days, it’s the stubble under my chin … Continue reading Getting our hair cut in Ulaanbaatar
How to name your apartment complex in Ulaanbaatar
River Garden I just got back from dropping Emma off at a friend’s house for Sunday afternoon. By “dropping off,” I mean riding over with her in a taxi, walking her up to the apartment, and then riding home. A taxi will pick her up later. We decided next time she could do it on … Continue reading How to name your apartment complex in Ulaanbaatar
An energy efficient house in Ulaanbaatar
Down a narrow dirt lane off a chaotic intersection in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, lives a man many people would regard as eccentric. He is Froit VanderHarst, originally from the Netherlands, but he has lived in Mongolia for 12 years now. I found out about him through a student of mine who interviewed him for a Mongolian … Continue reading An energy efficient house in Ulaanbaatar
On the seasons: Ulaanbaatar in the Anthropocene
Hope I have three blog posts going simultaneously now, and am ill-advisedly starting this fourth one, but this is what I woke up thinking about today, so I am going to start and hopefully finish it, so I can get back to the others. I am back to posting once (maybe twice) a week now, … Continue reading On the seasons: Ulaanbaatar in the Anthropocene
Ulaanbaatar: What it’s like
One of the first photos I took in Mongolia, driving in from the airport I’ve been wanting to write a general post about Ulaanbaatar for a while now. This is mainly about my impressions, because it’s impossible to write about every aspect of a topic, especially one as complex as this city, in a single … Continue reading Ulaanbaatar: What it’s like
Slogging through the blah days, in search of bagels
It’s just past mid-February, and the weather forecast for today is 22°F and sunny. Emma is reading Webtoons (her Sunday morning ritual) as I write this, and we are about to take the bus downtown to see How to Train Your Dragon 3, which Emma has been asking me about for a while. I figured … Continue reading Slogging through the blah days, in search of bagels
