Living a life

Mongolian countryside

Do not play your trumpet here

Gandan Monastery

Ger on the sidewalk

Rainbow in the countryside

Two American buddies in a record shop

Roberta Charpentier, director of the ACMS, Tenzin's assistant, Tenzin Palmo, myself

An auspicious week indeed!

This week I went to Jack Weatherford's apartment and listened to an impromptu performance of the traditional Mongolian long song. It was quite wonderful! It was especially awesome because I had read his book, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World and now had the chance to meet him.http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/0609809644/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313762874&sr=8-1

If this wasn't enough, while visiting the American Center for Mongolian Studies, I ran into Tenzin Palmo, subject of the novel Cave in the Snow, which I also read and thoroughly enjoyed.
http://www.amazon.com/Cave-Snow-Tenzin-Palmos-Enlightenment/dp/1582340455/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313762934&sr=1-1

What's makes all this even stranger is the fact that I read both their books, exactly one year apart from each other, in McLeod Ganj, India.

Let the great world spin!

Mongolia

Washington Post article on Mongolia! 

  Since I will be in Mongolia for a year, I thought the above article was quite pertinent. Enjoy!

Fulbright Mongolia

I just found out I received the Fulbright grant to Mongolia! This means I will be living (and writing!) in Mongolia from August 2011 until June 2012. Can life get any stranger?!