2006.09.26: September 26, 2006: Headlines: COS - Mongolia: COS - India: Dance: Worldview Magazine: Mongolia RPCV Nikita Desai writes: Mongolian students learn the art of Indian dance

Peace Corps Online: Directory: Mongolia: Peace Corps Mongolia : The Peace Corps in Mongolia: December 10, 2003 - Northern New Jersey Record: Nikita Desai is spending two years in Mongolia with the Peace Corps : 2006.09.26: September 26, 2006: Headlines: COS - Mongolia: COS - India: Dance: Worldview Magazine: Mongolia RPCV Nikita Desai writes: Mongolian students learn the art of Indian dance

By Admin1 (admin) (151.196.53.94) on Sunday, May 03, 2009 - 4:11 pm: Edit Post

Mongolia RPCV Nikita Desai writes: Mongolian students learn the art of Indian dance

Mongolia RPCV Nikita Desai writes: Mongolian students learn the art of Indian dance

"I came to Yuroo Soum to teach English as a Foreign Language. Even though dance was a dear interest of mine, I never thought I would be teaching Indian dance in Mongolia. It was mid-April 2004 and my counterpart, Olya, saw an advertisement in the newspaper of an Indian dance competition taking place in Ulaanbaatar on May 14. I was pleasantly surprised but a part of me didn’t really believe that it was going to happen. Indian dance was my passion and had been for as long as I could remember, and now there was a national Indian dance competition about to take place in the capital. The event was organized by the Indian Embassy in Ulaanbaatar."

Mongolia RPCV Nikita Desai writes: Mongolian students learn the art of Indian dance

AN INVESTMENT IN EXPERIENCE

Mongolian students learn the art of Indian dance

Nikita Desai
Yuroo Soum, Mongolia | Sept. 26, 2006

“Money.” How much happiness and sadness this word has the power to cause. The lack of it can cause anxiety and despair; the abundance of it can ease the obstacles of living in a poor country. It can test your ability to survive and stay warm in the Mongolian winter where temperatures drop down to -50 degrees Celsius. If families don’t have money to buy wood, they collect and burn dung to stay warm in the winter or resort to stealing wood from their neighbors. One truck of wood is approximately 30,000 tugrik (about $25), which is usually a low-class Mongolian’s one-month salary. A local told me that during winter, a family tends to use about two to three trucks of wood depending on the severity of weather conditions.

[Excerpt]

I came to Yuroo Soum to teach English as a Foreign Language. Even though dance was a dear interest of mine, I never thought I would be teaching Indian dance in Mongolia. It was mid-April 2004 and my counterpart, Olya, saw an advertisement in the newspaper of an Indian dance competition taking place in Ulaanbaatar on May 14. I was pleasantly surprised but a part of me didn’t really believe that it was going to happen. Indian dance was my passion and had been for as long as I could remember, and now there was a national Indian dance competition about to take place in the capital. The event was organized by the Indian Embassy in Ulaanbaatar.

Read the rest of the story at Worldview Magazine.




Links to Related Topics (Tags):

Headlines: September, 2006; Peace Corps Mongolia; Directory of Mongolia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Mongolia RPCVs; Peace Corps India; Directory of India RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for India RPCVs; Dance





When this story was posted in May 2009, this was on the front page of PCOL:




Peace Corps Online The Independent News Forum serving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers RSS Feed

 Site Index Search PCOL with Google Contact PCOL Recent Posts Bulletin Board Open Discussion RPCV Directory Register

April 19, 2009: Obama's Public Diplomacy Date: April 19 2009 No: 1352 April 19, 2009: Obama's Public Diplomacy
Obama engages Students in Roundtable in Turkey 7 Apr
To Rebuild US-Muslim Relations Obama Is Not Enough 26 Mar
PC Model in Mexico sends Older Specialized PCVs 19 Apr
Peace Corps Needs Top-Down Re-Examination 19 Apr
Peace Corps Returns To Rwanda with 32 PCVs 17 Apr
Read from "First Comes Love Then Comes Malaria" 16 Apr
Does Mike Honda want to head Peace Corps? 15 Apr
Paul Theroux promotes Responsible Tourism 3 Apr
Vice President Biden Meets PCVs In Costa Rica 1 Apr
Vote on Christopher R. Hill delayed by opponents 1 Apr
Joseph Acaba makes First Spacewalk 31 Mar
Petri Vindicated for Advocacy of Direct Loans to Students 30 Mar
Mateo Paneitz devotes life to helping poor in Guatemala 29 Mar
Read from "The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen" 16 Apr
Drew Marinelli makes 6000-mile bicycle trip across US 28 Mar
Senate votes to triple AmeriCorps' ranks 27 Mar
Four Cycling RPCVs have been friends for 45 years 25 Mar
Denice Traina Hopes Hives will Help Harrisburg 24 Mar
"Expand the Band" brings Instruments to South Africa 24 Mar
Maria Shriver testifies on her Father's Alzheimer's 24 Mar
Charles R. Larson donates African collection to UT 23 Mar
Read more stories from March and April 2009.

PCOL's Candidate for Peace Corps Director Date: December 2 2008 No: 1288 PCOL's Candidate for Peace Corps Director
Honduras RPCV Jon Carson, 33, presided over thousands of workers as national field director for the Obama campaign and said the biggest challenge -- and surprise -- was the volume of volunteer help, including more than 15,000 "super volunteers," who were a big part of what made Obama's campaign so successful. PCOL endorses Jon Carson as the man who can revitalize the Peace Corps, bring it into the internet age, and meet Obama's goal of doubling the size of the Peace Corps by 2011.

Director Ron Tschetter:  The PCOL Interview Date: December 9 2008 No: 1296 Director Ron Tschetter: The PCOL Interview
Peace Corps Director Ron Tschetter sat down for an in-depth interview to discuss the evacuation from Bolivia, political appointees at Peace Corps headquarters, the five year rule, the Peace Corps Foundation, the internet and the Peace Corps, how the transition is going, and what the prospects are for doubling the size of the Peace Corps by 2011. Read the interview and you are sure to learn something new about the Peace Corps. PCOL previously did an interview with Director Gaddi Vasquez.



Read the stories and leave your comments.








Some postings on Peace Corps Online are provided to the individual members of this group without permission of the copyright owner for the non-profit purposes of criticism, comment, education, scholarship, and research under the "Fair Use" provisions of U.S. Government copyright laws and they may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner. Peace Corps Online does not vouch for the accuracy of the content of the postings, which is the sole responsibility of the copyright holder.

Story Source: Worldview Magazine

This story has been posted in the following forums: : Headlines; COS - Mongolia; COS - India; Dance

PCOL43782
01


Add a Message


This is a public posting area. Enter your username and password if you have an account. Otherwise, enter your full name as your username and leave the password blank. Your e-mail address is optional.
Username:  
Password:
E-mail: