The UB Post-Leading English News

STUDENT Yu. Nasanjargal last week won an English language essay contest, held at a branch of the Mongolian State University. Students from a number of universities and institutions took part in the competition.

Yu. Nasanjargal studies at the Humanitarian University. Sh. Yanjindulam took second place and Ts. Solongo claimed third place in the contest. Both students attend the Mongolian State University.

The contest was organized by schools in local aimags and Peace Corp, the American Volunteer group.

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A NINE-day Avatar Course was held last week in the Terelj National Park. The course is taught by 28 Korean Avatar Masters who, a press release states, have "a passion for awakening people to their full potential."

Thirty-five students attended the course run by Florida based Star’s Edge International. One of the masters, Ilu Kim, said the course offers a chance to learn "how to flexibly achieve your dreams.

I operate with the belief that everything always works out for us, and it always does. One day soon there will be many Avatars in Mongolia," she said. "I think Chinggis Khaan will be pleased."

The Avatar website describes Avatar as "the most powerful, purest self-development program available. It is a series of experiential exercises that enables you to rediscover yourself and align your consciousness with what you want to achieve. You will experience your own unique insights and revelations. It’s you finding out about you."

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DANIEL MILLER presented a free lecture at Cafe Amsterdam on August 20. His talk, titled ‘Hunting the Wild Yak and Chasing Wild Ass: Sport and Adventure on the Tibetan Frontier,’ discussed, Mongolia Web says, "the challenges facing the conservation of Tibet’s wildlife and issues related to the future of nomadic pastoralists on the Tibetan Plateau."

Daniel Miller, a former American Peace Corp Volunteer, hails from Minnesota and has traveled to Tibet over 30 times. Described on a website as a "rangeland and livestock specialist," he has been working in Tibet since 1988.

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A CHILDREN’S camp exchange to celebrate culture and enhance relationships has been conducted on the banks of Lake Baikal and around Ulaanbaatar. Twenty-five children from the Orkhon aimag in Mongolia and twenty-five from Ulan-Ude in the Buryat Repulic, Russia, have attended two separate camps in each other’s nations. One was called the ‘Natural Wave’ camp on the banks of the world’s largest lake, and the other was held in Mongolia’s capital city and included a visit to the Mongolian-Russian Erdenet mine.

The camps were organised by the Education and Cultural Department of the Orkhan aimag and the same department from Ulan-Ude.

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Finds from a recent archaeological dig in the Bayan-Agarga soum of the Khentii aimag, are currently being restored in the National Museum of the Republic of Korea. The objects were found in a tomb from the Hun period and included dishes, teapots, precious stones, a gold necklace, an entire horses chariot and livestock bones.

The finds will be placed in the National History Museum of Mongolia next year once research and conservation work concludes in South Korea.