news worthy of noting

Mongolians have compound names and they tend to have an actual meaning to them too. I am Will (future tense). I teach English to people like Sunflower and Radiating Emerald. Eternal Destiny skipped class because she's meeting with No Name (yes, some people actually are called Anonymous). Firm rock and Iron Hero are repairing a classroom along with White Child. The training manager Treasure of Knowledge is in a meeting now with Golden Light... Sometimes I forget how beautiful their names are. My memory is terrible - over the span of 30 days, I have misplaced or lost: a dictionary, gloves, a wallet, a flashlight, and I forgot what else. Some of them I've found, but I wonder what my memory will be like 10 years from now... I'm taking care of my friend's cat for a week. Motivation for me to make fires in the morning so it doesn't freeze. One day my little sister came over and asked me a bunch of questions about it. "Does your cat play chess?" and then she realized that it can't play chess because it doesn't have any hands. Also she told me that its chin is hairy just like mine. One of the rewards of learning Mongolian is listening to her funny comments. Um, what else? Speaking of Winter, I got much better coal this year. Making fires are so much easier and they last longer. That is going to make the next few months a lot more pleasant.