Some people love to cook. I do not love to cook. But I love to eat, so I cook. Cooking here often involves a few extra steps. For example, while on our unexpected time in the US we discovered an amazing quinoa taco recipe. It’s a crock-pot dump recipe so it’s super-easy. All you need… Read More Just a few extra steps
The store we buy our meat at had a fire and is closed for repairs so I can’t buy meat there. So I have to buy it somewhere else which is considerably more stressful because most places don’t have both Mongolian and English words in their meat sections. I realized that the tiny place I… Read More What Part of the Chicken is it?
Our whole family was out of Mongolia for one week, June 8-15, spending time in Thailand. During that week our hot water was shut off and our eMart had a fire and has been indefinitely closed. These two things have created a few complications for us. The Hot Water that Wasn’t First, we left Thailand… Read More While We Were Gone
I wish that I had read Fluent Forever before I started learning Mongolian. Instead, I was 4 months into language school before I picked it up. So now I’m trying to change systems while I’m using them, when I could have set them up well from the beginning. I’m sharing what I’ve learned (and am… Read More 7 Tips for Learning a New Language
Ellisons in Mongolia 