Sain Bainuu

Well everything is going good, and I know everybody has been patient for some details and I just happen to have some time. Right now Alli and I are in a town north of the capital city beginning our training. We along with the rest of the peace corps trainees [pct] are staying at an old soviet hotel in this town. We have it good because our room is relatively clean and bug free. Otherwise it is exactly what you would imagine an old soviet hotel to look like. Other pct's dont have it so good. Our day consists of breakfast around eight thirty then language training for an hour and a half then all types of other training till about six with an hour or two lunch break in there somewhere. It is overwhelming but we are dealing with it. On Sunday we move into our host families Hasha. A Hasha is basically a family compound that is surrounded by a small fence and usually has a guard dog which we are not to pet. It will be nice to get to a permanent location and not to have to live out of our back packs. Hopefully one of us will have access to the internet so we can update over the next week or two. Love Mike and Alli

Land of Blue Sky

Whoever named Mongolia that was the most uncreative person in the world. But when you get out here and see it there really isnt a better way to describe it. The country is spectacular plain and simple. Alli and I are at a training site right now with the rest of our group of volunteers adjusting to Mongolia and learning about what we will be doing for the next three months. On sunday we all split up for our host families in different towns and to begin our training. Alli and I will be seperated but our host families only live about 5km away from each other so it isnt to bad. Our first night in Mongolia we stayed at a tourist ger camp and met the american ambasador the next morning, who seemed like a real nice guy.
Overall everything is going great here and we are almost 50% sure that we made the right decision to join the peace corps.