Khansella: Homesick

I'm back in UB (as if I ever left) finishing up catalog stuff. We're making one main catalog with all seven aimags represented and seven smaller ones for each aimag. We should have all aimags and the main one to the printers this week. I had a welcome break last week and went to Hovd in the far western part of Mongolia. I worked at the local RASP office and produced catalogs for a sausage maker and two furniture makers. I could almost spend the rest of my service doing catalogs, but I'm sure I'll find other stuff I'm good at. The mongols understand the concept, but most have almost no idea how to put them together. Plus, there's really no quality printing outside of UB. That will change eventually. Hopefully my work will encourage businesses to spend more on marketing and maybe even demand local design and printing services. But I'm getting ahead of myself...

There isn't as much work to do here as I thought there would be, so I'll go home soon. I haven't been in Arkhangai in over a month and I want to see Nasaa and get back to work in my office. My friends are trying to convince me to stay in town all week and go to the M17's swearing in ceremony, but I really want to go home. I can still see everyone as they come through town on their way up to Darkhan. The only attraction would be to go to the ceremony and I've lived through one already. We'll see.

In other news, I ended my summer losing streak at Dave's pub quiz thanks to a nautical round and a table round about US license plates. We also went to a free Scorpions concert on the main square which was quite an experience. I haven't had a chance to post any pictures lately, but I'll put some up once I get back to site. Until then, enjoy these ones my friend Mike sent me from our trip to Beijing.