Thursday morning I met my neighbor Hugh from across the hall coming back from jogging. A truly fascinating and amazing guy: a former Peace Corps volunteer in western Mongolia, with master's degrees in Buddhist studies from Harvard and Columbia who is here studying Mongolian and doing his PhD thesis on Peace Corps volunteers.
Thursday night, we drank up the airag that my hosts gave me to take home and had a wide ranging discussion of the world's issues, including memories of Morningside Heights (where I grew up). Friday night, we had another long discussion, over vodka.
Friday was a quiet, uneventful day in the office. Chimge made the arrangements for me to stay at a ger camp in the Terelj that I wanted to visit, which has some of the best hiking in Mongolia, and also some rock climbing.
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