Let's Get Major

So around World Series time there Major League baseball was being advertised on Star Sports. Their catchprase was 'Let's Get Major.' I told the Major (i.e. Mike) Major and his friends about this as a way to say "Hey let's fnd out where Mike is and hang out with him. Everybody likes this phrase. Anyway suffice to say we got the Major quite often. Sometimes we'd meet on the weekend; other times we'd meet on school nights. We'd usually meet on the 1st floor of the State Department store or the bookstore on the 3rd floor. Sometimes we'd meet in Alaska which is a nice Korean restaurant on the road that heads north from State Dept., past Oort Tsagaan going toward the Peace Corps office.

A few words about Mike. he's a great guy. He's great to talk to you. When you're feeling down, he has an very interesting perspective on things. We talked to each other about some difficult things but also lots of crazy whoo-hoos in the last few months.

On Saturday January 13th Mike had a pizza making party. Mike really likes to make pizza. We had some technical difficulties in the pizza making process but got all of that de-snafued. After eating dinner which consisted of pizza and wine, Mike and I had to take care of some errands in different parts of the city. Later around 9:30 or so we met up with Mike's friends with whom we had made pizza. We all decided to go to Tornado nightclub in Sansar District. Tornado is still a cool place but it doesn't get as crazy as it did in the past. I think the deciding factor for this was that the only Peace Corps people in the place (current or former) were Mike and I. Indeed we were the only foreigners in the place until a group of Russians showed up around 11. Overall it was a fun outing to celebrating Mike's big return to the US. He left on Monday the 15th. Soon he'll be hanging out with the very excellent people known as Ariel and Khandmaa.