Teachers’ Day Party

Teachers' day occurs the week before Tsaagan Sar (the lunar New Year.) My school rented out a nice Chinese restaurant and provided no small amount of merriment. Trinh showed up, and the ceremony turned into a dance party. He has often been known to have this effect.





Teachers’ Day Performances

What is a holiday without a series of hastily-prepared musical performances? I had the honor of leading the Foreign Language department in a round of “We are the World,” singing a duet version of a wonderful Mongolian song roughly translated as “Traveling Bird,” and whipping out Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-Sharp Minor. The sustain pedal broke about a measure after I started, leading to an electrician, the music teacher, and me awkwardly trying to fix it in front of the entire staff for almost ten minutes. I eventually gave up on that and just played the song without pedal. NICE.