Friday, January 23, 2009

Back to Baganuur






This week I was on the road three days visiting branch offices in cities outside of Ulaanbaatar. The office in Baganuur is one of the smaller cities and has a small staff of two.
You will see posted here a picture of the office and a picture of the two staff. Their names are Narangerel or Nara and Khurelsukh. Both of them are top notch folk with college degrees.
There are two programs being run out of the office. One is for small businesses, non-agricultural related, and the other is for the small agricultural related businesses. There are two fellows who supervise these programs out in this branch office who work in U.B. and have other assignments as well. They are two really bright high energy young men with Master's Degrees. I have posted their pictures in front of the huge monument of Genghis that is located on the way to Baganuur. Batbaatar is the young man on the left who has his MBA out of Korea and Batorshikh on the right and he has his masters Degree out of Istanbul, Turkey.

Then I have posted the picture of the old guy with the monument to the really old guy, Chinggis Khann, in the background. You can tell how huge this monument is by looking at how it dwarfs the car parked in front of it. You can take an elevator up into the top of the monument.

I have been traveling for three days this week and then had trouble with getting onto the blog. My grandson Mike helped me out on the web this morning so I was able to log on and finally get another blog posted.

The Country Director of CHF here in U.B. and his wife have invited me over for lunch, to meet their three small children and to see Beverly Hoover, a former CHF employee, and her husband, who is working at the USA Consulate office here in U.B., so had better run.