For all you Jesse fans out there

I forgot to post important information about jesse. So here it goes....

When we were at our PDM confrence at the beginning of the month in UB we had the US ambassador come give a speech and have lunch with us. This actually happens everytime we get together as a group but it is still cool. Only a couple people are chosen to sit at the VIP table with her and Jesse and his counterpart were one of them. This is PCs 15th year in Mongolia so there were two newspapers and a TV crew or two there to cover the event. Jesse ended up being one of two people quoted in the paper (mis quoted actually, they said he works at the Children's Center but that is me) and was also on Mongolian national television. He was interviewed and answered in Mongolian. What a stud. The night it aired we got about 15 texts from people all over that saw him on TV and when we got back to Arvaikheer our veggie ladies were very excited to talk to him about it and let him know they saw him.

Today jesse and his office were part of a music video. One of the doctors is a singer so the camera crew came and jesse and his peoples walked out the door and got in a jeep and drove around the block. Some part of this i am assuming will go into the video. Look for it on MTV Mongolia. So jesse is famous now for at least another 15 minutes.

That is all for now. Keep on keepin on.

Spring (?)

The weather is doing the manic spring thing, which I take as a good sign. Warm one day (it was in the 40s! I only wore one pair of pants and my fleece, it was awesome) then three days of unrelenting wind storm. If it ever rained here I would think that little green things would be poking through the ground, but rain doesn't come till june...so i will have to wait on that.

Since coming back from our Program Design and Management Training things have been pretty slow. Most of Jesse and mines co-workers are in the countryside or in UB. So no new projects to report.

On a positive free time side one of our friends came and stayed with us for the week. We had fun. It was a business trip for her so she was occupied durring the day and then we had fun in the evening. Our site mates and us went into a food frenzy and so we have been eating a ton of food all week. Our guest went away a little fatter and a little happier. She even got along with Byamba.

Not a lot on the horizon, I think I am getting sick, again but just mild. Jesse is sort of looking forward to his birthday. He doesn't really want to do anything but we have cake and some presents for him to open. 25 on the 25th. Whoo!

Jesse at present is working on his personal statement for med school admissions. So he is grumpy a lot. He is on his second version and feels a little better about it so 15 more versions and it should be really good.

Well, I guess that is all for now. I am super sleepy so if nothing makes sense then read next weeks post and maybe it will be better.

* In mongolia when the seasons turn they ask "Are you Springing well?"

So I hope you all are springing well. Cheers.