Gimme HOPE Joanna (x3), for the morning come

There she goes (lalalalala), there she goes again...
Ok I'll stop with my musical contributions. But as you all probably understand, I'm about to hit the road again. This time for a short holiday to Beijing (5 or 6 days) and afterwards I'll take the train to Ulaan Bataar (UB), Mongolia. Yes I know, been there done that but this time I'm going to stay there for almost 3 months. I'm going to do some volunteering for the Itgel organisation. Itgel is Mongolian for HOPE. We will be working on a tourism project in the Northern part of Mongolia, where the Tsaatan people live (people that live from reindeer). It's quite a remote area so this time it's going to be a survival trip. Don't really know how I'm going to manage but we'll see. They already made me very afraid with telling stories about riding horse for 3 days in a row, dress like you are going to climb the Mount Everest etc. For more information about the Itgel Foundation please visit www.itgel.org. Half of my time I'll stay in UB and the other half in the middle of nowhere, without electricity, without running water, without McDonalds, without internet (so also without waarbenjij.nu, might result in having to wait for my stories for some time)...but with having a great experience...I hope. Next to working for this NGO I'm going to do research for my Master Dissertation, which is about how tourism could be a solution for poverty.
Anyways I'm looking forward to it...but first Beijing! Back to my 2nd home town, staying in the best hotel in town (:D Mark u rule!), drinking tsing tao's, to the Lala-Lido, eating great food for almost nothing, shopping real fake shoes and stuff, seeing everyone again. I like it!
Im leaving the 25th of this month and hope to come back on the 16th of October. I'll keep you posted.