Russians have a word (“trevoga”) for the spiritual qualms that you experience before traveling until you’re safely seated on your train/plane seat. I call it stress. Whatever it is, I feel it. The day of our departure, I went straight from classes to my internship, and then straight to choir rehearsal, leaving early around 8 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘datsan’
Spring Break (Day 1): ‘Trevoga’ redeemed in U.U.
Posted: March 28, 2010 in Far East (Spring)Tags: Buryatia, cold, datsan, friends, guide book, hotel, Irish, jungle animal, Lenin, Lenin head, museum, тревога, трудность, Russian MTV, Snow, Sovietism, train, WiFi
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Week 8: Mongolia, Days 8-10
Posted: November 12, 2009 in Mongolia (Fall)Tags: datsan, Italian restaurants, Mongolian Smithsonian, museum, passport control, Texan restaurants, the French, toys and puzzles
Day 8 (Sat., Oct. 31): Mongolian Tricks and Treats A sample of a pretty standard Mongolian music video, i.e. what you watch on state busses for hours on end as disco-lights make it all the more exciting, as we had done the day before: I had a nice sleep-in kind of morning our last [...]
Week 8: Mongolia, Day 2
Posted: November 3, 2009 in Mongolia (Fall)Tags: datsan, food, German Opera, monastery, Mongolia, museum, pizza & coke, survival, The English, train
Day 2 (Sun., Oct. 25): 22 steps to a [pick-your-adjective] day in UB City 1. Know that UB City is the somewhat gangsta’ name for Ulaan Baator so that you can feel hip and cool in conversations about the capital of Mongolia. Facts: 1.5 million people of Mongolia’s 2.5 million population live in UB. UB [...]
