Are You Kamphey Approved?

The picture here is of the Kyokushu Tower in the heart of Ulaan Baatar.  I’m still unsure of how many A’s are in the spelling of the capital but will try to find out once I’m there.  Maybe it would better if I stick with UB.   Will you understand if I just say “in UB there is..?” I hope you will because I’m not waiting for  a response before moving on to other topics of discussion.

Near the top on the 15th floor is the office in which I will be working for most of my stay in Mongolia.  Here is the office of BTV.  The tv station I keep telling you I am going to work for.  I have finally located a website of theirs but unfortunately it is in Mongolian.  No use to my English speaking friends.  But go ahead and take a look at the lovely world graphic and some photos of a Mongolian festival.  In actuality I don’t know if it’s a Mongolian festival or even if it’s a festival.  It’s a picture of some sort of ceremony of something in some country. Wonderfully specific, eh?

I have found the Arts Council of Mongolia.  And to my dismay they merely have the Calender of Events for May.  Last checked July 8th. But at least it tells me they have many art galleries, a State Opera and Ballet theater, many clubs, An American Center for Mongolian Studies, the aforementioned Ex-Pat Theater Company is performing Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Of course they chose the worst Earnest movie of them all.  Even worse than Ernest goes to Africa and Ernest goes to Splash Mountain, the last one only made for TV and features Ernest becoming a “Splashtranaut.”  That’s almost as bad as my idea for a Blaxplotiation film called Afronauts.