A great day in Mongolia

Today has been probably one of the best days in my life. After visiting the pathetic Shamanistic Center of Eternal Sophistication, we started playing basketball and soccer with the kids outside the hostel. I could finally feel my energy levels returning, and after a while I wasn't feeling tired at all!




Later on, I met with Joanna and we went to the orphanage. Sutaba wasn't there, so we had no access to the art supply storage. Joanna saved the day by suggesting that we just have the kids draw designs for their masks. We taught them how to write what color each part would be in English, and everyone came up with pretty interesting masks - mostly humanoid aliens.



We finished the class early, and headed to the basketball court. Some kids took my camera, and started taking pictures - they took a total of 280 pictures! In the end, they got pretty good, and some of the shots were pretty artistic. (I'll have an album just with kid's shots.)





Finally we wrapped up and went home, feeling better than I'd ever had. Although I was exhausted, I finally felt that I contributed to humanity - and had a blast doing it. I didn't have that unsatisfied feeling after a day at the office, feeling that I needed to do more. I truly felt that I deserved to relax, and have a couple beers. So we did.