Monday, December 10th, 2007
ISP and Coming Home
So. I’m done. I’m now home (actually, at Middlebury) and dealing with re-entry… but I haven’t really written or posted since the beginning of ISP period. Things went pretty well, though my actual final product (the paper) was less than impressive, since my rather absurdly bad time management/organizational skills (or, rather, lack thereof) conspired to thwart my best efforts at creating a polished piece. So, the paper is less than amazing. And my presentation was pretty good, but I was running on not-much-sleep, and according to my host father, it showed (though he said I shouldn’t listen to him since he’s a pastor, and his standards are pretty high).
Anyways, he filmed a bit of the ISP presentations, which took place on December 1st, from 9am-1pm Mongoliatime at the Ulaanbaatar Hotel; notable guests included several of our lecturers including my advisor, Sukhee, as well as Ambassador Mark Minton and one of his staffers, a former SIT student-turned-fullbrighty who is studying NGO ethics for a thesis in Philosophy, my host family from UB, my host mother from my stay in Arvaikheer (the aimag center of Övörkhangai aimag (province)), who has since been promoted and moved to UB (she’s a judge).
So that’s a quick overview, just enough so I can post some documents for your perusal, before I post the ISP itself (i’ll make it more web friendly first), here is a sexy diagram I spent far too much time on, which illustrates the network of changers and the products they trade:
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