This week we got some snow.  This is the sidewalk outside our apartment house.  The people are shoveling the snow and then will sweep the sidewalk to clear as much snow away as possible.  How do you like the snow shovel?  When they get down to solid ice, they chip away at it with a metal pole.  I fell twice this week on the ice.   Luckily I was not hurt either time, but now I wear my traxs on my shoes all the time when I am out. 
We have finished one week of teaching at a private school. We have five different classes, one a day, with a total of 93 students.  They are 8th, 9th, 10th, & 11th graders. The schools here only go to the 11th grade right now.  in 2014 or 2015, they will start going to the 12th grade.  We teaching them conversational English, so we spend most of the time reading aloud and other speaking activities.  It is fun.
Today Tom drove for the first time.  We are assigned to the Nalaikh Branch outside the city so the traffic is not bad, especially on Sunday.  And we did not have to much crazy driving as we got back into the city and to the mission office.  But soon after we were back the roads were crowded. Next week we are to share our testimonies in sacrament meeting, so we had better brush up on some of our Mongolian language.  We will have a translator but it would be nice to say some of it in the language.

This is a box of chocolate covered cherries that Tom bought me for Valentine's.  When we ate the two candies, we were almost knocked down.  We did not realize that the cherries were not in a juice or syrup but in a strong liquor!  But it is the thought that counts and I do have a heart shaped container!
Wow, it is hard to believe that we have been gone for almost a month and a half already!