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Description
My name is Tugsuu. I am an English guide and English teacher in the Khuvsgul province of Mongolia. I live with my husband and our two children and we run a tourist info center in Murun, a charming little mountain town in the north of Mongolia. We organize tours around the north of Mongolia for tourists from all over the world. I also run a small English school, and I am looking for Workawayers or foreign students.
Additionally we, as a family, have opened a guesthouse (four small cottages outside of our own home), and I would like to build a greenhouse as well. We would like Workawayers to help with construction, maitntanence, and decorating as well.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Learning about traditional ways of living in Mongolia. Cultural and language introduction. Experience the old Mongolian way for a short period of your life. In your spare time, you can relax, visit the north of Mongolia and travel around, or you can visit l the minority tribes in the north and meet the exceptional Reindeer tribe.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Two kinds of people are welcome at our place !
We are looking for a person who is able to teach English for different levels starting as soon as possible. Age and/or gender does not matter. Volunteers will teach English to small groups of students. They will help 5 days a week, depending on how many students/groups there will be. Usually there are two groups in the morning and one group in the late afternoon, but it can change. Each course is 2 hours long. You will work alongide with me (Tugsuu), sometimes alongside with my children, and if there are any other workaway volunteers at the time, you will collaborate with them as well.
Couples are welcome.
It is preferred if you can commit to at least two months. But short term is also ok. Please contact me for more details by email or on my workaway profile.
Also, we are looking for someone to help in the guesthouse, that my family and I run by ourselves. The tasks can range from: helping with tourists, gardening, cleaning, and/or cooking.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Mongolian: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
If you stay short term, you will live in a wooden house next to ours on the property. If you will stay long term ,2 - 3 months, then we can build a traditional Mongolian "ger" for you. We will provide you with wood for heating your cabin, and electricity. Please note, that we live a very simple, rural and real Mongolian life, far away from the comfort zone you are probably used to. You will learn how to heat a wood stove with fire and keep your room warm. We have recently installed a hot shower and toilet in a hut outside of the main house to be used in the warmer months. There is the local bathouse in the winter months.
We also have wifi you can use (in the main house).
We provide two meals a day, breakfast and dinner. You can expect a simple breakfast and a Mongolian dinner. There are markets near by to acquire any additional food you might desire. There are cooking accomodations in the housing area.
There is also access to do your own laundry.
What else ...
The tsaatans people live close to my place and we can organize a trip as an incentive to see the last of the amazing reindeer people and the beautiful white lake. It takes 6 days and we offer you for a lower price.
I will explain to you how to get to Murun from Ulaanbaatar. It takes around 12 hours by bus. I will pick you up from the bus station in Murun.
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A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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His whole family welcomed me and guided me with kindness in this region, the start of my trip to Mongolia and my first trip alone. I was able to give some English lessons to children from 8 to 15 years old and it was very enriching. Tugsuu and her daughter cook very well; and she… read more
I visited Murun in September, and it was great to meet such a kind and helpful people
Tugsuu is amazing person, she helped me with my travelling, with thousand things, even gave me a tent. she was worried about me and I loved staying with her family and helped her
Teaching children was like a game, every day I made up something new.… read more
Our stay was only 4/5 days so not so long.
We were 2, joining 2 others volunteers we didnt know, already here for 2 weeks approx. We wanted to be in the "decoration team" and we understood that a teacher was needed on 2 days. So we accepted to be teacher these 2 days.
During our stay, we didn't speak so much with the family. Tsuguu just… read more
Laurent et Tiffany
I spend my days teaching at her school, discovering Murun and… read more
with them. So they learn… read more
It's good opportunity and experience to work as a volunteer on that place but so far on my volunteer experience that's the worst experience that I… read more
