Adolescents in Mongolia
Pagmaa born in the central area of the Gobi in a nomadic family. He spent his childhood in a yurt and the 17 years moved to the city to study. His parents, pastors goats and sheep, They asked for a loan to the bank to pay 2.000 dollars it costs each year your university, “the best in finance around Ulan Bator«, proud account. Now you have 19 and works in summer guiding tourists thanks to its English, basic but sufficient. Pagmaa is shy, He speaks low and embarrassed face is covered when laughing. If you get angry, sulky look to the floor and makes a small nod, sideways. It has a round face, almost imperceptible eyes when she laughs and beautiful long black hair in a braid reminiscent of a Mongol princess. Although it is not so. She wants to lose weight, so sometimes does not eat.
Pagmaa is shy, He speaks low and embarrassed face is covered when laughing
A Pagmaa does not like the city, family prefers steppe and help their parents with cattle, but she wants to work in a bank and see the world. He is aware that, according to tradition, must marry the 21 years, I do not know is how to combine all: His love for the nomadic life, his desire to travel, work and marriage.
Do not know how to conjugate all: His love for the nomadic life, his desire to travel, work and marriage
Pagmaa is calm and patient, very responsible and refuses, laughingly, swearwords teach tourists. Asked home or yurta, it is clear. Choose the yurt or "ger", those round removable shops where most Mongolians live, even in the cities, which alternate with buildings. It is easier to heat to meet the 30 the 40 degrees below zero of the Mongolian winter, she says, more human because in that small space coexists whole family. She grew up in one of those stores, his parents changed places every year looking for grass in summer.
When he had to go to school I had to move with his grandparents and uncles. They live in the capital of the central Gobi, only 15.000 inhabitants, in a small plot surrounded by a wooden fence. Inside the yurt is her grandmother, where he slept until two years ago Pagmaa. Colorful wooden furniture adorn the store witnessed part of his childhood and a picture reminiscent of the dead grandfather wearing his Mongolian dress, that sort of tunic feet long and wide sleeves. A few meters are building height of his uncles, a latrine and the dog booth.
Teen's eyes light up at seeing his elderly grandmother. He embraces her as a mother and tells her life in the city
By the plot runs around the little sister of Pagmaa, he now shares with his grandmother Store, and her cousins playing in a puddle. Arriving, teen's eyes light up at the sight of the old woman. He embraces her as a mother and tells her life in the city. It is not off of it.
Pagmaa now no longer sleeps with her grandmother, but in a dorm room with three girls sharing. In two years he will finish the race and aspires to work in a bank earning a 200 euros per month, although he admits that the competition is tough. Only return to the yurt on vacation to see his parents, a lifestyle that leaves behind, not without regret because life on the plains and mountains Mongolia is, she says, far better.
