#tsetserleg

We suspect the visit was thanks for the gift of books and other things we have given to her classroom and to her classmates, but they didn’t tell us that outright, and it was the most lovely display of gratitude I could have imagined.

Unfortunately, I had to work, but I got Terra started with making some coffee for her teachers and bringing them cookies to nibble with their coffee. Aagii got dinner started (buuz) and gave them a tour of the house, and just as they settled in to play a traditional Mongolian game, the power went out.

Aagii got the wifi back up again with the car battery backup system he has for me so I don’t have a meltdown during a power outage, and we set up a small lamp for the visit upstairs and candles and the portable gas stove for dinner downstairs.

Terra was taught the meanings of the different sides of the anklebones, the turtle the game is played on, and how to play.

I have my complaints about what the public school system here can offer children, rather, what they are able to offer with what funding they are given. But it is things like this - this lovely home visit - that remind me that she is learning tremendously valuable lessons about how to be a good person and make the world around her a better place. She is learning about who she is and who she can grow up to be, and she has two lovely women helping to show her the way.