Top 10 things you didn't know you could do concerning transportation

We thought that we would take a break from giving updates on things with our students and give a fun list of things that we have discovered this school year concerning transportation.  Some of these things were funny when they happened and others scared us.  We hope you enjoy.  Sorry we don't have pictures to illustrate each thing.  We have a few to help you in imagining and picturing what we're talking about.

The top ten things you didn't know you could do concerning transportation:

10.  A ride on a bus could be therapeutic from a chiropractic point of view.

9.  Riding on a bus can make you shrink or at least wish you could.

8.  When riding a bus, like the yellow one below, be bounced by hitting a pot hole so much that you literally leave your seat and hit your head on the ceiling.

7.  While sitting on the back bench be thrown out of your seat from just hitting a pot hole.

6.  Being thrown out of your seat because it is not attached to the floor.

5.  When you are on a trolley bus and you come off the line, every guy gets to the opportunity to get off the bus and help push it to get it back on the line and going again.  This is most common when there is an accident in the lane where the trolley has to go.

4.  Controlled sliding on ice in traffic on a bus.

3.  High speed swerve on a bus because someone pulled out in front of you while there is ice on the road.  This thankfully did not include flipping although the bus was leaning a good bit and we were sore from being thrown around.

2.  Off-roading in a bus!  (That is when we usually get thrown from our seats or bounce up to the ceiling.)  The buses usually have really bad shocks too!

Finally,

 #1.  There is always room for one more!  

Look at the pictures below.  Riding public transportation isn't a good idea if you are claustrophobic. :)  

You can easily fit another 50-60 people on here.

This vehicle is called a micro.  It is a minivan that is suppose to fit 12-15 people.  However, there are usually 20-25 people easily on one of these.

We hope that you have enjoyed our top ten.  This just gives a little insight to the way we have to get around here.  We ride a bus everyday this year since we commute to work.  That is where most of these have come from.  We have gone off-roading several times.  Our first bus ride back for second semester we went off-roading for our first time and thought that the bus was going to fall apart on us. Some days there are no dull moments. 

This one seemed full to us, but not to them!

Art Festival

Art festival is a time when the students display their many talents.  Entries are made according to department and year in university.  Some of the entry categories were solo dance, band song, band dance, solo song, classical dance, and drama.  There were 2 students MCing the event and introducing the performers and the category in which they were being judged for their performance.  The judges consisted of the deans of the departments, the dean of academic/student affairs and the director of student affairs.  We were not able to attend the full day of performances due to a meeting at our home that evening.  However, we enjoyed being able to watch some of our students perform and visiting with some of our students during the break between the morning and afternoon performances.  One of the specific performances we really enjoyed was done by the sophmores for the International Business Management Department.  We hope that you enjoy the pictures that we took to document this occasion!

The Main Hall was packed, standing room only!

This is Yuna and John, the MCs

 The pictures to the left and directly above are of the International Business Management Sophomores.  They sang Fix You, a song that the group Coldplay sings. They sounded just like Coldplay! (The student who is the lead singer, in the white shirt, is Timmy.)

Esther and Samuel sang a song together.  

                  

This student was dancing the salsa.  Byambaa is one of our students. 

 Traditional Mongolian dances to the left and right.
    

Our Sophomores!

Can you guess who they are pretending to be?

The IT department had fun!

MTP in Sanzai

Shortly after the first semester began, our department had a full day outing with all of our students.  Several of our students were not able to attend, but we had an enjoyable time with those that were able to attend.  Sanzai is a location outside of the city where many Mongolians have summer homes.  Since this was in the fall many of the trees were changing colors and it was a little cool.  The pictures that follow show you the type of activities we had while we spent a day outside of the city!

Our fearless leader, Joelle (EE Department Dean)

             Joshua's Juniors posing!

      

Uplift for this student, she has almost completely lost her vision in her left eye overnight.  We just found this out as second semester classes started up.

  Joshua's Juniors won the prize, a yummy cake!

Disco time for the freshmen!

Our groups of students.   Joshua with the Juniors and Jennifer with the Sophmores.

    

The small group in the picture to the left is of some Sophmores.  The man and woman in the front of the group is one of our department co-workers and his wife.  They are very sweet people and a joy to work with.  She fell on the ice in November and broke her ankle in a couple of places and has been laid up since then trying to fully recover.  Her complete diagnosis came when they were visiting folks in the States during our winter vacation.  The health care available in Mongolia is not the best and often times misdiagnosis happens.  Uplift for Eunice's recovery.


Still to come.............. more events with our students!!!!!