Sain bain uu

Hello!

As some of you might already know, I will be in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia this summer at an internship with a national TV station. I am participating in a program called International Cooperative Education <www.icemenlo.com> and this is their first time sending students to Mongolia. It is an unpaid internship, so it was actually quite easy to be accepted. I fly out of Portland, Oregon on June 21st, stay in Beijing for 4 nights, then continue on to Ulaanbaatar. I fly home on September 17th. I'll be staying with a host family, and I mean it when I say "family": they have 3 sons (21, 17, 11), and 1 daughter (8). All living in a Soviet-style apartment bloc. Sweet.

I am incredibly nervous, excited, enthusiastic, and a bit melancholy. So if you'd please consider sending me emails (or better yet: letters and postcards!) during my stay, I would be SO SO SO appreciative. My mailing address is:

Chuck Adams P.O. BOX 46A / 91 Ulaanbaatar MONGOLIA

In case any of you want to call, the home phone of my host family is: T. +976 - 11- 31.20. 46

Also, instead of the usual "group" email thing I did a few years back when I was in Italy, I've set up an online journal. You can access it as little or as much of it as you like. I will try to update it at least once a week.

The URL is: http://fieldnotesmongolia.blogspot.com

However, PLEASE still send me emails of what's happening with your life, and I can still reply to those on an individual basis.

Good information about Mongolia, if you're curious, can be found at the following websites:

http://www.mongolialife.com/ (best photos of Ulaanbaatar) http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/ (best English info on current news in Ulaabaatar) http://www.mongoliatoday.com/

Bayarlaa! (thanks)

Bayartai! (bye)

Chuck