Before any of you complain about me for posting something other than handjobs and rum in the LLL forum, I would like to remind you that a Fulbright scholarship is pretty fucking awesome loot.
So anyways, as the title says, I turned in my Fulbright application about a week ago. For those of you who didn’t come across my CTC thread about gettin’ done gradiated from college, I’m applying to do a year of study at the National Institute of Physical Culture and Sport in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. My proposed field of study is the “Three Manly Games” (archery, equestrian, and wrestling) and how they’ve been affected by the Communist period and the twentieth century. Basically, I’m applying to ride around on horses, shoot arrows, and wrestle dudes for year on the Steppes of Mongolia. It’ll be the ultimate LARP.
I won’t hear back from the Fulbright people until spring or so, and if I do get the scholarship, I won’t be leaving until the end of next summer. Fulbrights are extremely competitive - although Mongolia is the least competitive region for them in Asia, with about a 2:1 ratio of applicants to scholarships. So it’s by no means a sure thing.
If I hear back that I didn’t get the scholarship, I think I’m going to revisit my original graduation plans of doing kung fu on a mountaintop in China for a year. Hell, I might do that afterward, even if I do get the scholarship.
Fulbrights are indeed wicked sweet. Good luck.
Did you learn Chinese in college?
How’s your Mongolian?
And if you do go, can you get me some of that horse milk wine they drink there?
[quote=1point2;2225462]Fulbrights are indeed wicked sweet. Good luck.
Did you learn Chinese in college?[/quote]
My degree is in Chinese studies, and studies ended primarily focusing on Qing dynasty matters and the 四大名著 (Four Great Novels).
[quote=Ka-Bar;2225464]How’s your Mongolian?
And if you do go, can you get me some of that horse milk wine they drink there?[/quote]
Nonexistent, at the moment. I plan trying to teach myself a bit before I go, but I’ll most likely end up enrolling language lessons while I’m there.
I’ll look into the horse wine.
Just FWIW, it’s called airag (Mongolian: айраг, IPA: [ˈai̯rək]) or, in some areas, chigee.
I hear that stuff is absolutely rancid. In an awesome way.
[quote=TheMightyMcClaw;2225469]My degree is in Chinese studies, and studies ended primarily focusing on Qing dynasty matters and the 四大名著 (Four Great Novels).
Nonexistent, at the moment. I plan trying to teach myself a bit before I go, but I’ll most likely end up enrolling language lessons while I’m there.
I’ll look into the horse wine.[/quote]
Learn before you go. Immersion can either mean lerning to swim, treading water or nearly drowning. I wish I’d learnt more Mandarin before coming here.
Wow. This is awesome. I’m jealous that I didn’t think about this when I was younger.
But you only deserve to be awarded if you can tell us what is best in life…
Fuck kalamazoo, dude.
[quote=Styygens;2229182]Wow. This is awesome. I’m jealous that I didn’t think about this when I was younger.
But you only deserve to be awarded if you can tell us what is best in life…[/quote]
To crush your enemies, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
Duh.
[quote=TheMightyMcClaw;2229230]To crush your enemies, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.
Duh.[/quote]
Go forth and conquer, Man of Iron.
Best of luck.
I love making women lament.
Who doesn’t?
Awesome stuff.