This time last year I was in a foreign country feeling a bit lost, unsure & excited. My time in Mongolia was awesome, I learnt a lot, grew a lot and had fun. Since then, I've had a longing to go back that I've found really hard to explain to others and myself...
I've had a few days off this week to recover from my exam (which btw was not as bad as I thought it would be - see last post) and spent some time watching Ewan McGregor's Long Way Round. Actually, I only watched the 2 episodes where he and Charlie rode through Mongolia as i was feeling a bit Mongolia-sick.
At the end of the 2nd episode, after riding through Mongolia and getting to Russia, Ewan talks about how he feels as though his experience in Mongolia was the whole reason they were doing their motorbike ride around the world. It is such a different life experience to any other country he has been in, it's so hard to get around in & communicate to the outside world in and it's a really tough place to live in - he doesn't understand the geography, the culture, the people, but he loves it all at the same time. He says "I want to go back to the place I don't understand".
I think that's how I feel about Mongolia too...
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