Both Yanjka's and Nandia’s moms are English teachers at Khovd State University. Their dads are independent businessmen, and Yanjka’s father also helps her grandmother run a small pharmacy.
Nandia and Yanjka reported that school starts at 8 a.m. and finishes at 12 p.m. in Mongolia (very different than here).
Usually they walk to school by themselves, but sometimes their parents will drive them if they’re running late. They both live about a ten-minute walk from their school, so getting there on foot is easy.
Since classes finish at noon, Yanjka and Nandia get to eat lunch at home. Yanjka’s favorite food is bantstai tsai (mini dumpling soup) and Nandia’s favorite food is tsuivan (stir-fried noodles).
They speak Mongolian at home and at school, but they just started English classes this year and will start Russian when they enter high school. To say “hello” in Mongolian, you can say “Sain baina uu” which literally means “Are you well?”
