Without Tugsu

Well, Tugsu left Wednesday morning at around 5 Am for the airport. She is heading out to the far eastern steppe in Dornod Aimag. Here is a link to a nice map so you can find it:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Landeskunde/Mongolia.jpg
She will be there until Sunday working on the project I discussed in an earlier blog. Until then Bilguun and I are managing things at the house. Yesterday I felt bad, since Amina didn't have her mommy around. So we headed out to together, late (for other reasons as well) to work and I had Bilguun and Amina go to the Theatre. They said they had a great time and for dinner we went to the restaurant known among expats to have the best hamburgers in town. Amina seems to be doing just fine, of course she barely sees Tugsu and I during the week as it is. As for me, work is going well. I have been working to put together a project that I think would relaly benefit where I am working, the National Center for Health Development (NCHD). Working together with the special consultant to the health sector from the Asian Development Bank we had the idea of a capacity assessment of the NCHD. I have found the right person to carry out this activity here and we had a meeting together on Monday to discuss this. That seems to be going well. Next, the Peace Corps people came to the office for an orientation and I had the luck to be included in the meeting which was successful. I meet their health proram director today for lunch. They are doing some nice work in the countryside but it is a real challenge to coordinate these volunteers efforts into something that will survive them and benefit the community. Other than that I am at work alot and not really having much fun. However, that suits me alright, hopefully I can continue my work and put together something worthwhile. That is all for now. Bye,