Mongolian Ping Pong Review

Beginning to End (A Summary):

So the plot of Mongolian Ping Pong begins with Bilike finding the ping pong flowing in the nearby river. He takes it back with him, not knowing at all what it was though. Bilike also shows this ping pong to his two best friends: Dawa and Ergoutuo, of what he found, but no none of them knows what it was. Bilike wonders what the white ball was and so he asks his grandmother and got the answer that it is a "glowing pearl" that'll bring good luck. Bilike, Dawa and Ergoutuo encounters the problem of getting bullied by some boys who were a bit older then they are. But on a night where they all went to watch a film movie, they all found out that the "glowing pearl" is called a ping pong from the film. Not long after that, when Dawa's familly got a new t.v., while watching and listening to what was coming out of the t.v., they heard the word ping pong again; hearing that the ping pong is their national ball. Hearing that news, Bilike, Dawa, and Ergoutuo sets on the goal of reaching Beijing and sending back the national ball to its rightful owners. As for the results, they didn't reach it, instead they got disciplined from their parents for being gone for so long. As for the ping pong ball it was crushed and dented by Bilike's mother, and so Dawa asks to take care of it. But when Bilike ask for it back, he finds out that the ping pong was traded for a toy; that then broke Bilike and Dawa's friendship and brotherhood. Dawa and Bilike's father brought the two of them together and splits up the ping pong ball in half, giving each one of them the other half. In the end Bilike heads to the city with his sister for his education, but didn't get the chance to reconcile with Dawa. Bilike also in the ends enters a room that seems to be a ping pong room.

My Thoughts:
Before researching and watching Mongolian Ping Pong, I personally assumed that this movie was about a little boy who finds a ping pong near where he lives, and later meet some people from the city, that is recruiting kids for a ping pong tournament. So then the boy gets to actually play ping pong and learn about it. But nope, I was wrong, it's mainly about a boy who finds a ping pong ball and with his friends, they are trying to find out what the white ball was actually.

Ping Pong in Mongolia:

This is Mongolia's mixed doubles

Ping pong in Mongolia and nationally is known as table tennis. Table tennis has been played in Mongolia for almost 50 years. It is now getting popular with the youngsters nowadays. Mongolia was awarded with the bronze metal for having a successful sport by the National Olympic Committee.


Education in Mongolia:
So the Mongolia school system follows the Soviet Union, going with ten years of education for primary, secondary, and university schools. Those who live and are from the country side attends boarding school, that goes up to eighth grade. Therefore if the student wants to go higher in their education, they have to attend aimag centers.

In Mongolia, there are many universities and colleges, but Mongolia's top university is the National University.