OK, so I haven’t blogged in 2.5 years? Maybe it’s because I couldn’t think of anything creative to say. Maybe I was just lazy.<\/p>\n
So why blog now? Nothing better to do, I guess. <\/p>\n
But really, it seems I’ve been to Mongolia now so many times that I should probably say a bit more about it. Not that I necessarily know it much better than I did two and a half years ago. I have a better idea of the capacity and idiosyncrasies of the people, I suppose, and I certainly have seen all four seasons (at least two of each) by now. I’ve even picked up a few words of Mongolian: I can tell a driver which way to turn (or not to turn), I can say thank you, hello, yes, etc. Barely survival level, but for my lifestyle in Mongolia I don’t really need to know that much.<\/p>\n
I have been on this project now since last March. My first return trip to Mongolia was in June of last year; since then I have traveled back and forth about a dozen times, mostly for three and four week trips. However, I managed somehow to wangle a new contract that backs on to the old one; I just finished a three week stint with the Ministry of Finance Budget Project, and have just started on a six (!) week mission with a new project on Land Registration in Mongolia.<\/p>\n
So, what this means is that this is my longest trip ever, over two months worth. I miss home terribly already, but this is nothing compared to what it will be like in another six weeks. So, I might as well blog about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OK, so I haven’t blogged in 2.5 years? Maybe it’s because I couldn’t think of anything creative to say. Maybe I was just …","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimramsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}