I don't read anymore, no more inspiration.
I don't write anymore, no more creations.
I don't think anymore, no more independent thoughts.
All I do is sit infront of the idiot box and let both my biological eyes and its electric eyes burn out,
This makes me die a little bit each day.
I begin to fret about my future, anxiety takes control and I pase up and down, inside and outside, north and south,
Nothing here is helping me,
Where is the aid located?
On this blog are posted mere fragments some may call poems or tales. These are mere thoughts of a (possibly) partially insane young man child written in his late and post college life. Criticism is always appreciated.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Things I've Learned in Peace Corps Mongolia
- A new language
- Mongolian cultural habits
- How to download movies and TV shows
- Making fire
- Chopping wood
- Cooking- omelets, french toast, pancakes, fried rice, tsuvan, hosher, chili, stew,
- Cooking over a fire
- How to live without running water and/or indoor plumbing
- How to survive without electricity
- How to live without regular internet access
- Project Development: How to move from idea to reality (more development on this skill)
- Writing a project proposal and requesting grant money.
- A higher tolerance for Vodka
- How to eat all parts of an animal (guts, head, etc.)
- What Depression is (or S.A.D.)
- What COLD is (what -40 feels like)
- What Cabin fever is
- How to avoid annoying drunks
- What an annoying drunk really is
- Not having much privacy is normal
- Using an outhouse
- How to cut an animal carcass
- How to slaughter animals
- Beard grooming
- Entertaining myself for long amounts of time
- How to wear 2-3 pairs of pants at once
- Washing my clothes by hand
- Bathing without running water
- Mending clothes (stitching up holes)
- How to haggle
- Patience
- What Ambiguity is
- Teaching methods for TEFL
- Classroom management
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- Mongolians’ views on the Chinese and the Russians
- How to say family members in Russian
- Many words in Russian are the same in English (some examples: telephone, calculator, ).
- How to walk in snow & ice while keeping eggs from breaking
- How to cross a busy street in the city
- Mongolian women are gorgeous
- Famous countries for study abroad (Great Britain, Germany, Korea, Czech Republic, America,)
- Able to name the 21 aimags of Mongolia from memory
- Mongolian time is different than regular time
- How to swim in a river with a strong current
- How to fight angry territorial birds
- How to get high scores (95-100) on Karaoke machines
- Drinking at school or work is completely normal
- Planning parties and celebrations last minute
- Spending too much time on preparation for parties and celebrations
- How to co-lead a seminar
- How to make salt and pepper shakers out of hot sauce bottles (reusing/recycling)
- How to preform improv
- Pico’s cigarette strategy (for picking up women)
- How to live without proper working electronics or appliances
- How to survive a flood in a ger
- How to steal your friend’s blind date
- How to cool off during the summer (watch Community in your underwear)
- Blues music on harmonica
- How to (unintentionally) sexually harass a Mongolian co-worker
- What Inner Mongolia is
- How to unfreeze a water pump
- How to burn coal
- -40C = -40F
- Able to sing most parts of a few Mongolian songs
- formatting a flash drive doesn’t kill the virus that’s on it.
- how to inspect coal for burning
- How to use a french press
- How to use a swiss army knife's can opener properly
- How to break someone's heart.
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