Camel Conversation

The word “Timmay” in Mongolian sounds like of the English name Timmy. It means camel, and is one of my favourite words. I always imagine a young camel with a British accent whose name is Timmy. (Remembering words by association helps me learn, as well as offering an amusing creative outlet.) Living in the city however, our…

Photo Friday: Perfectly Patterned

As promised: A smattering of photos chronicling some of life here in Ulaanbaatar. The theme for this set: Patterns.

Mongolia Mountain

We climbed some really big hills the day before yesterday. Like, really big. So let’s make that a mountain. I climb it, it qualifies! The Story: It was Friday. Friday is team-time day. This time it was team-time-adventure-day. After school in the morning, we dropped by our place for lunch of PB&J or Sausage Sandwiches…

Photo Friday: The First!

Due to my lack of facebook photo-chronicling, and my desire to share with you a better picture (or several) of life over here, I am now implementing PHOTO FRIDAYS! In which I commit to joining so many others and faithfully chronicling something of our dailyish life via 1 or more photos, each and every Friday….

Love Deciphered

I look at the scabby picture of Lilo & Stich on my arm and resist scrubbing it off. I think about Tomoko, the boy who put it there with genuine kindness in his heart. Hear this, world: If I let you put a fake tattoo from a dollar lollipop on my arm, it means I…

A Processing Poem

Ma heart is troubled And my battery low. (Not literally me, my computer’s, you know.) It’s the middle of the night but now I’m awake Thinking of life and the the things that we face. Had youth group tonight and it was a doozy – Played with TP and some other stuff too-zy And that…

Explorer Pants

I wore my explorer pants today.  The last time I wore my explorer pants we climbed a mountain. I never told you about that, did I? One fine day at the end of last summer I was working at a fishing lodge. I worked there many fine days actually, but this day was a particularly…

A Selfie Interview: So How’s Mongolia?

An article in which the Annalist’s editor –in-chief, Ms. A. Louise Brown, conducts an interview with the protagonist of this site, one Miss Anna Brown, on the broad topic of “So How’s Mongolia?” _____________ Editor-in-Chief: First of all, thank you for your time! I know our readers are interested in hear from you. It’s not…