And back for Tsagaan Sar!

After 1.5 month in Europe I am back in Mongolia!
The Jetlag and the cold/pollution are a bit killing me but I am ready for my 3rd Tsaagan Sar or white month or the lunar new year!
For that occasion the special "cake" is prepared.
Depending on the size of your family you have more or less layers and at the top some tseven.

After that you put all possible candies on it!

And this is another one!

This small one is for god!
Notice the french candies and Lu on it! (somebody was in Europe :-))

After that you put on the table more things like a big piece of meat, fruits, alcohol, ...

This is a bigger table

With Airag (the fermented horse milk), just delicious!

And some milk products, with the famous aaruul, for those who know!

And course there was buuz to eat and one of them was containing a lucky coin! Not for me but ok!

There is also the new year calendar, this is mine (I am a rabbit) and seems I will do pretty good this year!

So the Thursday night we have eaten a lot and the next day was the greeting day, were you give your respect to everybody and where you receive some presents.
These are mine: Chocolate, magnet and house shoes, just what I need!
I am very happy with it!
This was a great Tsaaran sar!!!

Christmas

Soon it's christmas, so the school and the dorm are getting their decorations!
This is in the dorm.

This is an every day decoration in the dorm!

And this is at school!

 How nice

And Santa claus everywhere!
Soon holidays!!!

Farewell dinner

On Monday we had a farewell dinner with one of my english class.
Dolly has prepared some delicious cake :-)

And this are the girls from my class

We had great dinner with Khushuur

Meat and potatoes of course!

At the restaurant it was also a divination game :-)

And this is the full class with the mean that finally came!
I see you all next semester!!!

My horse guitar teacher

This is a video with my horse guitar teacher and his wife. They are both singer and of course playing many instruments.

I think I found a very good teacher, I am happy to continue my lectures next year!

I hope I will get better!!!

Costume museum

A few weeks ago I have been with some students to the costume museum.
This is a very small museum but you can see some mongolian traditional outfit.

On this one the woman has an haircut that represents an eagle.
This is because the chinese has ordered to change the stand carrying the fire and this was not ok for the mongolian believe. The solution was that the woman, who are taking care of  fire, have an eagle which is then the counterpart of the new and not ok fire stand!
At the beginning they use their real hair, what a job!

 These outfits are representing the different tribes, region of mongolia

Mainly it was done with silk imported from China

Mongolian like bright colors, so this is always "fire" outfit

and the woman have a lot of pearls and everything!
Really nice, but not so convenient...