Good Morning Guys! How do kids of nomads live? Do they go to school? Do they have a kindergarden? How do their days look like? I have been wondering about these questions. Life in the west is almost pre destined for children and adults: We are born, have to go to the kindergarten, then to school, then you can go to university, then you can get work, working like a robot for a bigger fish, it is not unusual for people to have two or three jobs and working over time that is paid or unpaid. From birth we get taught: - if you are not getting good marks in school and not getting a well paid job you are less likeable-. Easy said: we are living in a meritocracy!
How does it look like on the other side of the world? I visited nomads in Mongolia for one month, lived with them and got to know a new way of life.
People seemed to be happy the whole day
Nomad children do not go to a kindergarten, usually they are playing with kids or helping with chores in the yurt. Some of the kids were making fire to keep the yurt warm. At the age of three kids in Mongolia start riding horses. They like to ride into the valleys in the early morning and coming back in the late evening before the sun goes down. That was incredible cause people in the west are afraid to let their small children on their own, even for a few seconds. During their excursions they can eat in other nomads camps so they have energy for the rest of the day. Kids are attached to nature and do not have computer games, no mobile phone and no internet at all. In some areas I had weak phone reception :D If you want to call someone you have to use a satellite telephone. It is a huge box with strange noises :P
Teenagers are leaving their parents to attend boarding schools in the cities. They are living with other teenagers and only returning back at vacation time to their yurts. After school they are choosing whether they want to go to university or carry on their traditions as nomads. Many are choosing the life in bigger cities. They want to have more comfort, to go out and live the life that we are used to live. Some of them also want to go back to their roots, working with animals, making food for the family and living a less stressful life. But this is not really true, life is rough: no shower, no western toilets (just a whole in the ground) feeding animals, butchering animals and moving camp if necessary. Soon or later the way of the nomad will be history. Western companies are searching for minerals in Mongolia and digging up their ground.
Mongolian Song
Me and my hosts :)
letting fresh air in a yurt
Some kids liked to put some leaves on me :P
Organized Yurt :)
Horse track for riding tournaments. Horse race are as big as german football in Mongolia. People love to watch it
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Awesome and inspiring, thank you Lena!!
thank you very much :)
merci :)
Ich bin begeistert über deinen Mut, auch solche unkonventionelle Reiseziele aufzusuchen. Tolle Bilder und eine interessante Schilderung. Herzlichen Dank!
Vielen Dank :) Ja der Reiz führt mich in solche Länder :) <3
One day, maybe, we will go back to that kind of live...
do you think so?
Maybe not the same live, but we have to go back to a more sustainable life.
Excellent experience you have got. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
Sharing a video for you to watch which I think you might like. I'v seen the entire documentary but youtube has only the trailer. If you want to watch the entire documentary then ask me and I'll share it with you somehow.
great thank you very much, yeah why not , would be great
Shared my Google drive link for you to watch the documentary. And the other link is a bonus. Let me know if you like them.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxjoz-GhxfCXUjJQTzlkVmJCUkE/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxjoz-GhxfCXMnYxR1did3M3cDg/view?usp=sharing
parabéns pela postagem
thank you very much !
It is crazy. Some of the stuff in the house seem to be from far away. I wouldn't have expected that.
yes it is :)))
LOVE LOVE this. Wish I was in a position that I could take off and do something like this, come on retirement.
Great adventure and story to tell! I agree. The whole system suck in the west, the way i see it, since birth we are conditioned to be good abiding slaves for debt. But i believe the people will be fed up and a new system will emerge that makes the old system obsolete!
Thank you for sharing this lovely world, it is beautiful and touching, and also melancholic that it is a fading culture.
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Thak you for sharing so interesting info. Great experience to live in such conditions. It would be very useful for children who live on the other side, to stay there for sometime to understand important things in life. And of course, not only for children...
Mabe get a kid for racing horse very interesting