Walking on rainbows

Yesterday, two of my friends came over to play games and color pictures: Boba, 4 and Esuixen, 8 are two of Tsagana's 3 children (Tsagana is a friend of mine from work).

Later, Tyler and I went for a long walk with one of my students, Nyamundral, to her grandmother's ger. Her grandfather, now passed, was a councilman who helped to plant the trees that now line the streets of Khovd. Near Nyamundral's grandmother's ger there are groves of Aspen and Willow trees as well as a large garden and current bushes. We enjoyed currant jam and hot current tea at her grandmother's ger as her two nephews entertained us. On our way home, we walked along the Buyant river which is now frozen.

It was my first time to walk on a frozen river. The late afternoon sun reflected on the ice and snow in lines of colorful sparkles that looked like a rainbow on the ground. In some places, the ice was thin and we enjoyed stomping and jumping on it until we fell through to the lower layers of ice crystals.



We had so much fun, but the temperature outside is already -20 degrees Celcius. When we got home I was very numb.