This is the school where we teach English.  We now have 100 students total.  We teach five different classes, one class a day.  They range from beginning 8th grade to 11th grade.  They are fun.  The statue in the front is the founder of the school.  He was a Mongolian parliament member and his wife was Russian.  The students here speak Mongolian and Russian, some Korean and English.

 This is the front door to our apartment building.  Those windows are half way up the stairs to the first floor.  We live on the 4th floor.  We go up those stairs 2-3 times a day.  I counted the stairs we climb in a day when we only go up twice and twice at the office plus once at school and it was a total of 240 steps.  No wonder I have lost 20 pounds already!

 This is the Chingiss Khaan Hotel.  It is right across the street from our apartment.  All the national bigshots stay here when they come to Mongolia.  We go through the lobby to one of the stores we shop at simce it is in the back of the hotel.  This is at dusk with the lights on.

 These are a couple of scenes of the city taken from the 5th floor of the mission office.  The 5th floor is the mission home and President and Sister Clarks' apartment.  These were taken Saturday when we were there to watch the Worldwide Leadership training conference and have a potluck lunch. 

 This is in Nalaikh where we go to church.  It is out of the city and cows roam wherever they want.  And they have the right of way.  This one had just come down the road along side the chapel and is crossing the main road.  There were actually about 4-5 of them around the chapel.  We have also seen some in the neighbors in the city.

This is the traffic driving home on Sunday.  As you can see the cars are not in straight lanes.  And the white car on the left side of the pic is cutting in.  There are no lines painted on most of the roads and people sometimes drive 2-3 cars wide on a 2 lane road.  And if a car wants to cross this road, it just pulls out and blocks the traffic until it can make it all the way across.  And you also have to walk across traffic like this, so you wait til they traffic is at a stop and then you run between the cars.  Fun huh?  This is why Tom does all our driving and why we walk everywhere can.