Manjusri Monastery in Zuunmod

Trecking at Mt. Bogd Khan

My first Mongolian Cashmere

After I came to Mongolia, I always tempted to buy Mongolian cashmere but haven't met the one.
Today, I finally met the one while I was doing random shopping! Love it!

Handover ceremony

This is Mongolian summer!

Unbelievable!
Just 3 months after my arrival in Mongolia, complete frozen land became such a green field!!

Cute ones

Cute ones I encountered in town.

Goat?

 At the compound of sewage treatment facility. Why are you here??

Sewage Treatment Facility

I've never visited such facility in my life in other countries.
It was good learning but it smelled so much...

Environment Monitoring

Visited potential project sites.

View from City Hall

From a conference room of city hall.

Anmitsu

Something which made my weekend special!

Welcome home, Tyrannosaurus bataar!

Welcome back!

Letter from President of Mongolia to US gov to retrieve national treasure!

Korean Air transported it with free of charge!

At the entrance

Many people got together for opening ceremony! View from my office.

Today,  disputed fossil of Tyrannosaurus bataar started to be shown for public!

After Saturday work, I went to see it. The exhibition made me emotionally moved as it shows dramatic story on how this skeleton was returned to Mongolia.

SAKURA

My dinner a month ago, when my husband visited me here!
We tried a Japanese restaurant which gains good reputation in town.
Absolutely, it was great!  

SAKURA @ Kempinski Ulaanbaatar

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g293956-d1159112-Reviews-Sakura-Ulaanbaatar.html

At project site...

What a lovely place to monitor a project ;-)

A week ago

Ulaanbaatar,  snow in late May...

He is in town!

Spiderman!!

Disaster Preparedness Campaign

Students leaned what to do in case of fire through game!

Earthquake simulation machine made in Mongolia.

A char-type earthquake simulation machine brought from Japan.

Fire fighting cars donated by Japanese government 10 years ago - still in good condition!

Murakami

I hadn't bought books for long time, after I started to use Kindle.
But this time when I went back to Japan, I felt "I want to buy a book!", then of course, I chose Murakami.
Luckily, he recently published new one.

Now I have a small joy every night to open a book.

She became a star in the sky

 My beloved grand mother passed away 2 weeks ago.
She was a teacher when she was young and survived World War II.
She was kind for every grand children. I remember her white and smooth skin I touched when I was very small.

I clearly remember how she ended her long life, as I was just in front of her when she was about to depart.

Thanks to all miracle happened, I could be there and I could feel her last message, even though it was silent.

Of course, it was very very sad for all of our family member, but I'm sure she was happy, as she could go surrounded by her beloved husband and children.

I'm confident that she is sleeping peacefully now.

Oba-chan, otsukaresama!