Happy Halloween!

In celebration, I will be streaming "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and indulging in several Reese's Peanut Butter Cups courtesy of my care package! Hint hint: the mail system works internationally :)

Thursday is usually either my free day or my SUIS day, but tomorrow will be neither! In the afternoon I'll be going with the Arts Education program coordinator Daria to check out the "Trash is not Trash" project. I'm, of course, writing an article for the Mongol Messenger English newspaper about it, but I'm excited to get to see a project in-process.

Friday then is my friend and Fulbrighter Hannah's show at the Red Ger Gallery. I've seen some pictures of her work already, but I'm looking forward to the full show experience.

Said goodbye to Alex last night...thus officially begins the exodus of the 2012 friends. Trying to look forward to the memories I can still make before people head off to their next adventure and to then look ahead to all the neat people that will arrive for 2013. Understandably, most people center their time in Mongolia around the summer. I'm unfortunately tightly constrained by the academic year if I want to get funding and health insurance for the next cycle, but I figure the winter will be quite the experience. And who knows, maybe I'll hole up and doing some creative writing yet :)

Hope wherever you are and whatever you do to celebrate Halloween that it's a blast!