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Happy Thanksgiving!
This was a tough week for us. Luckily we only have to make it through one more Thanksgiving and two more Christmas and we are good. In lieu of family, friends, and good food we tried to have a little Thanksgiving of our own. We made mutton (which was all grizzle) and mashed potatoes and gravy(which turned out good) corn bread (which turned out real good) and our friend Nick brought over pumpkin pie and tapioca (which was also very good). Fortunately for us Nick doesn’t drink and the bottle of wine that we bought this time was not a bottle of vinegar so we were able to enjoy that as well.
We are homesick, that is for sure, but we will be ok. On the bright side I haven’t once thought about getting Alli pregnant so that we could come home. OK, maybe once, but no more than eight times did I think that.
Allie was able to share a bit of Thanksgiving with her students which they enjoyed. She also fed the English teachers at her school their first pumpkin pie. They loved it!!
We don’t do a whole lot of preaching on this blog, our goal is to give you an upbeat description of our daily trials, tribulations and cultural phenomenon’s that we deem appropriate. However, I hope that everyone that reads this makes the most out of the time that they have with their friends and family this holiday season, because not being able to do so really sucks. We just want everyone to know that we miss you and think of you often, and how much we appreciate those of you who make it possible for us to be here with your letters, emails, care packages, and thoughts. Happy Holidays.
Love Alli Mike and “Nick, Destroyer of Worlds and Crusher of Dreams” (our new cat).
Friday, November 23, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Novemeber 20th
As most of our loyal readers know last week we went to Erdenet to officially participate in teaching an English teachers seminar and unofficially to go on vacation for a week. I am happy to report the seminar went well and the collateral damage was kept to a minimum. While we were in Erdenet a monumental event occurred, Allison, my wife and a veg head for 15 years ate her first steak EVER. I swore a solemn vow 4 years ago that I would destroy the bunny loving, free spirit, everything has a right to live part of her, and that vow has now been fulfilled. My work here is done. She has officially crossed to the dark side (insert maniacal laugh here).
Now as many of our more insightful readers may be wondering (there are at least one or two of those) how did our poor butts afford steak and wonderful real ice cream and good steak at a restaurant no less, not one that I killed and butchered in some alley, again. Well luckily for us a benevolent force taking the form of our friend Salomon’s father blew into town and treated us to a culinary expedition that was literally the highlight of the last six months that we have been here. I’ve said it before and I’m sure that ill say it again, “the only thing better than steak is free steak”.
Aside from the copious amounts of food and drink consumed we were also indulging on the use of Salomon’s shower and toilet. It’s weird that after not really showering for a couple of months when you take a shower two days in a row you start to feel a little too clean. However, I never once felt like I was abusing the toilet, although surely I was. That seems to be an appropriate image to end this post on. More coming soon, love Alli and Mike.
P.S.
Before we left for Erdenet Allison had a Halloween party for her second grade class. I wish that you could have seen it because it was great. There was candy everywhere and she had the kids bob for apples then bob for candy in a bowl of flour. Hysterical. The culmination of the event was when Alli started throwing handfuls of candy into the air and the kids had never seen anything like it, they had no idea what to do with themselves, because maybe in only the most imaginative Spielberg like mind had an event like this taken place. We will hopefully be able to post some pictures of it.
Now as many of our more insightful readers may be wondering (there are at least one or two of those) how did our poor butts afford steak and wonderful real ice cream and good steak at a restaurant no less, not one that I killed and butchered in some alley, again. Well luckily for us a benevolent force taking the form of our friend Salomon’s father blew into town and treated us to a culinary expedition that was literally the highlight of the last six months that we have been here. I’ve said it before and I’m sure that ill say it again, “the only thing better than steak is free steak”.
Aside from the copious amounts of food and drink consumed we were also indulging on the use of Salomon’s shower and toilet. It’s weird that after not really showering for a couple of months when you take a shower two days in a row you start to feel a little too clean. However, I never once felt like I was abusing the toilet, although surely I was. That seems to be an appropriate image to end this post on. More coming soon, love Alli and Mike.
P.S.
Before we left for Erdenet Allison had a Halloween party for her second grade class. I wish that you could have seen it because it was great. There was candy everywhere and she had the kids bob for apples then bob for candy in a bowl of flour. Hysterical. The culmination of the event was when Alli started throwing handfuls of candy into the air and the kids had never seen anything like it, they had no idea what to do with themselves, because maybe in only the most imaginative Spielberg like mind had an event like this taken place. We will hopefully be able to post some pictures of it.
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