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Indeed. We had a good one for Australia Day here. For starters, we all got the day off. In the morning we went and visited a school for disabled kids, played games with them, sang songs and told them about Australia. It was pretty cool. The kids were funny.

Next we went and had lunch (generously paid for by the program) at a Mongolian Barbequeue place, complete with beer and a complimentary vodka shot. After the lovely luncheon, we all split up, then met back at Sukhbaatar Square for a game of cricket. Awesome fun. I ran around as much as possible to keep warm, which worked pretty well. Took some good catches, bowled pretty badly and batted dismally. The bat was lent to us by Dave of Dave’s Pub, an Enlishman well known around these parts, particularly for the weekly quiz. So, after the game we headed down there and had a few beers, which naturally turned into a few more.

We were there for quite a while, but I left for an hour on a money mission, so I wasn’t nearly as drunk as some of the others. This didn’t stop me from singing along loudly to Queen songs with Andy, the new teacher at ESP. Pretty soon after that we moved on to another place, where a friend of a friend was having a birthday party. A little more drinking and some dancing and we moved on again. Good times. I managed to escape at about 2ish and woke up a bit tired, but not hungover at all.

All in all a bloody good Australia Day.

Only got a few pictures of the cricket and nothing else. Apologies.

Also recently on my flickr, an ice monkey and a Mongolian burn crew tag that’s been burnt.

Here’s me as of about half an hour ago:

And here’s me looking stupid.

Enjoy!

Happy Straya Day!

It’s been a pretty weird week for me, with many random things happening at work. I spent a good portion of Wednesday, I think it was, watching tapes of Miss Mongolia, timecoding the cool bits to use in our show. she was one of the guests this week. I missed the filming of that episode because I had other things to do and I was in a bad mood. I know some of you are terribly disappointed in me.

That same moring I was handed a script for something I had no idea about. I found out the next morning that it was for a tape to accompany a textbook that teaches English for lawyers. The funniest part was that I found out about it maybe an hour and half before myself and Andy (the new English teacher at the school, from London) had to go and record it. Did have a good time doing it though. I really enjoy voiceovers for some reason, but video cameras make me nervous.

Now I’m off to see a hip-hop convert tonight. Better go actually, or I won’t have enough time to get ready. More soon…

Yes indeed. As promised, now that I have finally moved the site to it’s proper server, (after many trials and tribulations) I shall give you the link. Observe:

http://voiceboxtv.org

It was an absolute nightmare trying move the site, for reasons I needn’t go into. I was incredibly frustrated yesterday, but now that’s all sorted I’m happy again. Hooray! Still heaps of things to do with it, including translating some into Mongolian, which I should be doing tomorrow (with help of course).
The day before that was a ton of fun, because we were filming episodes 2 and 3 of the show. It was really exciting to wander in and see the set that they’d built for us for the first time.

Episode 2 features an interview with an ex-contortionist; a lovely girl called Nomin. Unfortunately, she had hurt her back and couldn’t demonstrate anything for us, but luckily Dave had a weird trick to entertain the masses. I almost ended up being the demonstrator of the trick, because although it’s his trick, I was better at it, so they wanted me to do it. I was saved when we got there because Ariun, the producer, thought it would be weird to have some random dude come on to do the trick, so she made Dave do it. Unfortunately, she did have other plans for me, so I’m still on the show, probably looking like a complete tool.

Episode 3, we shot part of in the studio, then went to interview a popular radio DJ, Uuganaa, doing his thing at the station at 9:30 that night. Very cool guy, and only 17. He’s on his own at the station, doing everything by himself for 4 hours every night, finishing at 1am. Studies too.

And now I’m off to scan some stuff and take it to Dave, who’s editing the shows at Mongol National right now.

Check out the new photos of the last 2 days on my flickr, or click on the thumbnails below:

And in more good news, I have just added the RSS feed for this site onto the forum, so you can discuss any gibberish I splurt out here, over there. If you so desire, that is.