I was deleting old texts in on my Peace Corps issued Nokia brick when I came across some texts that gave me a chuckle. We volunteers get 100 texts a month we can use to keep in touch with other volunteers, or more importantly, to text Whereabouts! Let me share some of my favorites with you.
Mikey (on the first day with our host families): How are ya doing buddy?
Me: (probably sent a response about eating meat globs and endless amounts of milk tea).
Mikey: Lol be strong for all of us
Mikey: If I have one more bowl of milk tea today I think I’ll set the record for the most consumed in one day.
Renee: Come over please! I am currently making awkward conversation with idk who pls rescue
Mikey: Hard boiled eggs and cake for lunch. Just like home. Also, have you seen XXX (Mikey drunkenly downloaded this one night during staging) the movie? Might be one of the worst things I’ve seen.
Mikey: Finally killed my first animal today. Not as bad as I thought. I held its mouth closed to stop the screaming though.
Ashleigh: You have a new baby. It was only a matter of time.
Hana: Agreed. And really hope your host fam walks in on you dancing alone in your ger.
Seki (my Mongolian language teacher): I don’t like cats.
Mikey: Good news. We are roommates again. Bad news. We are one the fourth floor again.
Mikey: The Orange Market is having a sale on lube.
Hana: You over dramatic? What a concept
Hana: Agreed. Harper also pointed out that it tastes like bile as I was drinking it.
Random person from my soum: *soum name” sum ymar bazar bne gert bna u baishind bna u hoolo hij chadaj bna u.
Me: ???
And here are some other general funny quotes that have made me laugh over the past few months.
Mikey: Mongolia vodka is harsher than any lover I’ve ever had.
Logan: Ed Helms was in “Remember The Titans”
Jenni: Isn’t Bob Dylan black?
Zena: So why is it important to teach grammar?
Alex: Trick question, it isn’t!
Nik (from the Khutul Rap): Sportin’ good looks in my deel, can’t see my skids don’t mind the smell.
Paul (also from the Khutul Rap): My glutes by goy. I’m rockin’ with my boys. I throw rocks at cows, I got problems with my bowels. That ain’t no shit. So pull up your shirt show that bellybutton gleaming cuz parties don’t stop till 10 in the evening!
(Goy is the word for “cool” and are gluteus are goy because we walk everywhere. The next line is fairly self explanatory. Mongolians also do this thing where they pull up their shirts to just expose their bellybutton. It’s been deemed the “Mongol half-shirt.” And are curfew during PST was only 10pm.)
Dylan: *Somewhat drunkly singing “Space Oddity”*
Many of these probably won’t make much sense to people back home but to my fellow M26’s included here they hopefully provide a good laugh. I’ll have a new post up after this weekends trip to the aimag center and UB.
Chasing Mongolia 