Things I've Learned in Peace Corps Mongolia

1. A new language
2. Mongolian cultural habits
3. How to download movies and TV shows
4. Making fire
5. Chopping wood
6. Cooking- omelets, french toast, pancakes, fried rice, tsuvan, hosher, chili, stew, 
7. Cooking over a fire
8. How to live without running water and/or indoor plumbing
9. How to survive without electricity
10. How to live without regular internet access
11. Project Development: How to move from idea to reality (more development on this skill)
12. Writing a project proposal and requesting grant money.
13. A higher tolerance for Vodka
14. How to eat all parts of an animal (guts, head, etc.)
15. What Depression is (or S.A.D.)
16. What COLD is (what -40 feels like)
17. What Cabin fever is
18. How to avoid annoying drunks
19. What an annoying drunk really is
20. Not having much privacy is normal
21. Using an outhouse
22. How to cut an animal carcass
23. How to slaughter animals
24. Beard grooming
25. Entertaining myself for long amounts of time
26. How to wear 2-3 pairs of pants at once
27. Washing my clothes by hand
28. Bathing without running water
29. Mending clothes (stitching up holes)
30. How to haggle
31. Patience
32. What Ambiguity is
33. Teaching methods for TEFL
34. Classroom management
35. Basketball
36. Volleyball
37. Mongolians’ views on the Chinese and the Russians
38. How to say family members in Russian
39. Many words in Russian are the same in English (some examples: telephone, calculator, ).
40. How to walk in snow & ice while keeping eggs from breaking
41. How to cross a busy street in the city
42. Mongolian women are gorgeous
43. Famous countries for study abroad (Great Britain, Germany, Korea, Czech Republic, America,)
44. Able to name the 21 aimags of Mongolia from memory
45. Mongolian time is different than regular time
46. How to swim in a river with a strong current
47. How to fight angry territorial birds
48. How to get high scores (95-100) on Karaoke machines
49. Drinking at school or work is completely normal
50. Planning parties and celebrations last minute
51. Spending too much time on preparation for parties and celebrations
52. How to co-lead a seminar
53. How to make salt and pepper shakers out of hot sauce bottles (reusing/recycling)
54. How to preform improv
55. Pico’s cigarette strategy (for picking up women)
56. How to live without proper working electronics or appliances
57. How to survive a flood in a ger
58. How to steal your friend’s blind date
59. How to cool off during the summer (watch Community in your underwear)
60. Blues music on harmonica
61. How to (unintentionally) sexually harass a Mongolian co-worker
62. What Inner Mongolia is
63. How to unfreeze a water pump
64. How to burn coal
65. -40C = -40F
66. Able to sing most parts of a few Mongolian songs
67. formatting a flash drive doesn’t kill the virus that’s on it.
68. how to inspect coal for burning
69. How to use a french press
70. How to use a swiss army knife's can opener properly
71. How to break someone's heart.