Wishing Nurbol Luck....

My best friend in Olgii, Nurbol, is leaving tomorrow to Ulaanbaatar for a month of training with Eznis, an airline in Mongolia. We're very excited for him and very proud of him. He's been doing work as a guide now and then with travelers who come to Olgii but it isn't steady and he's been looking for a good steady job for a while now. He's very smart, his English is excellent and he also speaks fluent Kazakh, Russian and Mongolian, and he's very motivated, hard working, and charismatic. He's been my best local friend since we met in March and he's helped me out so much with translating, projects, and the Kazakh language. We took him to dinner tonight at the Turkish restaurant and talked a bit about the gig in UB. He told us he's training for a little over a month and then has to take a test. If he does well on the test, he gets the job with the airline and will be coming back to Olgii to work, starting in late December. The Olgii PCV's will be in and out of UB in December so I'm hoping to at least be able to meet up with him for a beer and to chill and talk about how things are going with the training. It's only a month or so but we'll definitely miss him. Good luck Nurbol, have fun! :)