Visiting a nearly built home

Before our last day of build, we made a special trip to visit the Habitat house built prior to ours in Kharkhorin. This house number three was worked on by the team in town a few weeks before our arrival. Though it still had cement walls, the roof and windows were in place. So was the interior where we watched a family member working away on the electricity.

The owner of the property was away for the moment so we took the opportunity to invade her sacred space with our cameras. Her space was small but full of warmth and personality. It was very neat and you could tell that quite a few people had sleeping niches in that small space.  She wanted a new house built because her current “summer house” was too cold to live in in the winter time. (When the weather gets to minus 40, she and her family have to move into a ger.)

When the family got home, we took many photos of them as well and they offered us a tuppleware container piled high with cheese, milk curds, and other mysterious interpretations of dairy. What hospitality…

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