blue_lotus13 | Now that's service...

The streets of UB are dead today. I'm wondering if most Mongolians feel like I do today, which is really lazy and tired. I don't feel like doing anything but lying on my couch.

Anyway, I did go shopping, mostly for groceries. Got a couple beautiful landscape paintings, which were quite cheap, and a bracelet with miniature turtles on it. It's hard to describe but really cute.

I have realized that I am way too addicted to cheese. The Mongolian diet is mostly starch, meat and cheese. Since I don't eat meat, that means I eat a lot of cheese. I'll write more about Mongolian food when I'm not so lazy.

Anyway, got some groceries. The crowning moment was when a woman told me the price of something and I actually understood what she was saying.

I took a taxi home. I started directing the cab driver, but I told him to turn down a one way street. He stopped the cab and phoned his friend who spoke English. I then told his friend where I wanted to go, and the cabbie drove me to that spot. I was pretty impressed by this service.

I finished reading "In the Empire of Genghis Khan" by Stanley Stewart. It's a travel book about this British journallist who decided to ride a horse across Mongolia. It's really good.

And with that, I present the ten worst countries to be a journalist in

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/05/02/journalists030502

(Thank you [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] for finding the short link for me.