Inflation

Since I am back in Mongolia the inflation is just crazy, all the prices are increasing and sometimes every week.
And since my salary is not increasing I am buying a lot :-)
These are 5 kg noodles, should be enough until I leave!

Hare I have 3 kg porc and 3 kg beef!
All bought in the market for still a reasonable price!

2 kg chicken, bought in a supermarket!

And my beef again.
Just some example:
1 liter milk when I came to mongolia 1600 Tugrik, today 2400 Tugrik: +50%
1kg porc 10 000 T, now 11 000: +10%
Yogourt: 3000 T, now 4500T: +50%
Toilet paper: 400T, now 650 T: +62%
and I can continue with everything!

Bus ticket was 400 T now 500 T: +25%
I would say for the moment the inflation is between 25% to 50%
This is just crazy!!!
Luckily I have no luxes taste so that's ok, but if it continues like that this will be a catastrophe for the country...

Morin Khuur - vièle-cheval

And yes, finally it's done!
I have bought my Morin Khuur, horse guitar!
With a beautiful red cover

And this guitar, so nice, I love the color

And look at the horse head!
I am very happy!

So every Saturday I have my lesson and now I have to practice a lot, sorry my neighbors!!!

By the way I found a blog in french explaining more about morin khuur, very interesting!
Morin Khuur expliqué

My dinner

Last night I was lazy so I bought a pirosky and a munton buuz.
Both have meat inside of course, are very good but kind of very fatty!
But once in a while it won't kill me right?

Farewell from Dolly

My friend and colleague Dolly (On the right) is leaving for Korea :-(
Even if I am sad I wish her all the best.
So in this occasion we had a farewell lunch/dinner, well actually it was at 4 pm so I don't know what this is :-)

Oh by the way the woman on the left is me, I have a new haircut!!!
It's cool but required a lot of work :-)

And these are some of my colleagues from school!
We are a nice team!
Oh yeah the lunch/dinner was pizza, chicken, sweats, apple, mandarin, well in one word great!

a day in Darkhan

Yesterday I went to Darkhan to make a presentation to the students that will present their bachelor's thesis.
So it's me in the bus going to Darkhan!

Before that Duya helped me to get to the bus station. It took us 1 hour!
The bus ride to Darkhan is 3.5 hours (very long)! But the bus is quite comfortable so that was ok!

In the middle of the way we stop at some station, I found this statue funny!

this is the bus, half empty or full, depending how you look at it!

and if you are wondering, yes it was cold outside, it was snowing that day! But of course!!!

and windy as you can see on the ground!
But in the bus it was hot, except that all the windows where frozen...

After the presentation and before my way back, I went with my former colleagues to have a drink. It was really great to see them again!

And this is the cocktail they offered me, so nice!
And then back to UB, arrive at home 11pm exhausted!!!