Naadam-mike

Naadam is the mongolian national holiday that celebrates the three manly sports, wrestling, archery, and horseback riding. It is held from july 11-14 and everything in Mongolia stops for this holiday, everything. There is much drinking, that much is for sure. Families get together for the week since nobody works and it is generally just a weeklong party. Alli got to experience the naadam in our town which she will write about but i spent naadam at summer labor camp for CYD volunteers. Labor camp was actually a real good time. The seven of us and about 30 kids from at risk homes out in the hoodoo-(country side). We were there for four days and we stayed in gers which was very cool. I drank airag(fermented horse milk) for the first time and I also had regular horse milk, literally straight out of the horse. They were suprisingly good. Alli and I are going to write a long post this weekend which we hope to be able to post with some pictures. It is difficult because of the slow connection and rampant viruses on the computers here. Only three more weeks of training until we get our site placement whoo hoo.