Monthly Archives: August 2010
UB Post Camerton Interview
Camerton Reunites for 15th Anniversary Extravaganza! Interview by Courtney Niday-Nyan Photography by Thantcyn Nyan If you are a 30-something Mongolian, growing up in Ulaanbaatar, chances are the soundtrack of your youth was sung by Camerton. The vastly popular ‘boy band’ … Continue reading
Our Typical Altai City School Day
7:45 Our phone alarm goes off a second time! We grumpily dress, brush our teeth, and wash our face with bottled water. There’s no running water at the Birj. We attempt to approach the squat toilet, IF we can’t … Continue reading
Teaching Altai City: Broken Promises
After unloading at Altai’s remote ‘Dragon Center’ we worried how we would find our employer when our call went directly to his voicemail. However, our slack-jawed annoyance was soon interrupted by a shining white sedan in a thundering hip-hop dust … Continue reading
Steppe Into The Gobi: The Odyssey, Part II
Night brought a thirty degree drop in temperature, which I was ill prepared for in my tank-top, and my warm fleece buried beneath a ton of luggage. Courtney fared not much better, with a light pashmina wrapped around her cotton … Continue reading
Steppe Into The Gobi: The Odyssey, Part I
At least Ulysses left on a high note! We had to wait three hours for our 8-seater Korean clunker mini-van-bus, to get choke-filled with 16 adults, one girl, and a baby, at the appropriately named Dragon Center: a mosaic of … Continue reading
Steppe Into the Gobi: Preface
It all started when I sneaked onto the wrestling field, where only ‘press-passed’ photographers were allowed, in the Tsengeldeh Hureelen Wrestling Stadium, during Naadam, in Ulanbaatar. Courtney and I tried sweet-talking some Mongolian newspapers into giving us press passes, during … Continue reading