2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/ruthy07/rss.xml Welcome to my web site! You can check out my diary entries, view my photos, or see my videos! I wanted to do this site so that all the people that supported me and VSO can still be involved! I hope my blog and my photos etc can illustrate how much your support is appreciated! Leave a quick note on my message board! Oh and for all you lovely people that said you would write to me (Anne!) and send me stuff to get me through the -30 winter my address is: VSO Programme Office, PO Box 678, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia THANK YOU for being interested!! http://www.getjealous.com/ruthy07 http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=609091&go=ruthy07 Well I wanted to write about July and then write another blog just before I was due home but I just logged in today to learn that actually my account runs out today! So this will be my final blog I think! I will extend it for free so it's still online but after 2 years of on off volunteering I don't have the £30 to pay to keep this blog going to such an extent! I don't mean that to sound so woe me... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=609091&go=ruthy07 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=600486&go=ruthy07 I think that June, 2008 can be accurately documented as the month my blood pressure went through the roof and I became one of those hordes of people that are stress heads. The ones I used to look at sympathetically or try to couch through situations so they could chill out a bit. Well it seems those times have gone BUT I am keen for them to return so I guess I'll just have to keep you updated ther... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=600486&go=ruthy07 Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=598896&go=ruthy07 May was such a busy month and since then things have just been hectic but fun and obviously my previous efforts to keep on top of my blog have failed! However, as the country hots up (we've got 30 today) so has work and pressures but I'm loving it and wouldn't have it any other way! So post the Trans Siberian what have I been up to? On my return to Mongolia on the 21st I went for pizza to celeb... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=598896&go=ruthy07 Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=593627&go=ruthy07 Last month I was so lucky to get an opportunity to travel to Beijing. My sister was coming to visit Mongolia and it worked out cheapest for her to fly into Beijing and then travel back to Mongolia on the train. So I flew into Beijing (Mongolian airways had a special deal on so it was actually cheaper to fly than get the train, UB to Beijing only). We hung out in Beijing for about five days so that... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=593627&go=ruthy07 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=583614&go=ruthy07 I was thinking about my blog and the type of content for my blog. I was thinking things of interest might be the culture, my work, contrasts to the UK and that kind of thing. Then today I thought it might just be interesting to know what I do on an average day, what do I eat, where do I go, who do I see and that kind of thing!! Well, today seems as average as any other so I'm going to detail my Th... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=583614&go=ruthy07 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=574099&go=ruthy07 I'm feeling busy again. I don't make that statement in a grumbly kind if way either! I'm enjoying it and all the various things I'm getting involved in are worthwhile so it's a fulfilling kind of busy! It's a satisfying kind of feeling too after sitting around for a while now waiting for things to take off. So I'm busy but it's good! If I can just keep on top of things, not let the workload get ou... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=574099&go=ruthy07 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=572133&go=ruthy07 Another week has slipped by in Ulaanbaatar! I'm chuffed I'm keeping up with my blog! I've even started my diary again which I hadn't written anything in since February 2008! Things aren't massively busy at work at the moment. I've got enough to keep me busy at work and even have mini panic attacks when I start thinking of all the funding proposals to do! But I still have time on the weekends to sp... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=572133&go=ruthy07 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=570239&go=ruthy07 Well I'm one week in and how is it going? How am I feeling? It is good to be back and although most things are the same there are a few differences I've noticed and I can't help wondering how much or if at all these differences will impact on my time here. There are only a few people here that I know from before, only a handful that I hang out with. I had a lunch (mmm salad and pumpkin soup!) w... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=570239&go=ruthy07 Sun, 8 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=568507&go=ruthy07 I've just woken up in my room in my apartment. The apartment that will be my home for the next seven months. I feel reflective. I guess that's because I was travelling all day, then visiting my Mongolian family, then unpacking and then there was the four months in the UK that proceeded that. Maybe this morning, laid in my bed in Mongolia is the first time in a while I've not been moving so I've be... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=568507&go=ruthy07 Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=496977&go=ruthy07 It has been just over 10 months and a week since I came to Mongolia. That immense amount of time seems to have passed me unnoticed and without significance! Sitting here now I can"t help but thing how that has happened, how quickly the time has gone and why didn"t I plan huge booze ups at every given opportunity?! For example at 6 months, 8 months, 10 months!!! Odd numbered months would ... http://www.getjealous.com/getjealous.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=496977&go=ruthy07 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT