beautiful day

It is so nice out today. The sun is shining AND producing heat. Amazing.

Some exciting things to report this week:
Health- Jesse did a doozy to his finger the other day chopping wood the fault of either the axe or broken glass on the ground. Nasty gross looking thing that is still bleeding two days later. We called the medical office but there is nothing they can do (doesn't require stiches or anything) so he is just keeping it clean and wrapped. Good news, he can keep the finger, bad news will leave big scar. : ) I have been sick for about two weeks with some dumb lung thing. But am on the mends now and should be fine by the weekend.

Summer- Jesse and I were both accepted as trainers for the month of June so we will be imparting all sorts of wisdom on the new M17 group. HA! We are excited about it. We will be attending the Training of Trainers in late May and then train in Darkhan and surrounding areas in June. So it should be a busy but nice way to spend a month.

We are also getting ready to say goodbye to our site mates as everyone will be leaving in June. We have had a lot of fun with them and will miss them alot. We should be getting 2 M17s to replace them so we are crossing our fingers for cool kids.

We then go from Darkhan to UB to pick up my mom and Ken for two weeks of fun. We are planning on doing Nadaam and the gobi (dino bones) and some places around our aimag. Should be cool because we haven't really had a chance to explore around mongolia much.

Work- I have been out of work sick off an on for the last two weeks so not much to report on my end. Next week we are attending a radio training to write radio spots, should be cool. Jesse is crazy busy however. Doing some work with the Dairy market trying to make it safer. Worked with an Australian guy this week and will be busy with that till we leave. Yesterday he took a day trip with a camera crew to check out sanitation of children's places in some area soums for a TV spot. One place was really nice and the other not so nice so it should be an interesting comparison.

I think that is all I have in the way of updates. Hope all is well in your world.

Cheers!