Trust me, I'm a doctor

ok not yet but jesse is starting to get interviews to medical school! Yippee.....! Kinda nerve wracking actually. His first interview offer is to Georgetown and the second is to Northwestern. Both really good programs. The interview windows are for october but georgetown said whenever he comes home they would interview him and he hasn't talked to northwestern. so the earliest jesse would be coming home would be the middle of Oct. Few short weeks away. Hard to commit to a time without knowing if more schools will offer slots and when... blah.

On the Mongolia front we have been keeping busy at work. I just went on a trip to the countryside and gave two presentations durring "young family" day in a very remote soum. One was on baby choking and nutrition (sorta related) and the benefits of team building games to youth leaders at the secondary school. It was fun. I am making slow progress on the resource room (waiting on two book shipments and my counterparts to get a carpenter to come in) and am beginning training for our new "Big Brother, Big Sister" mentor program set to start the beginning of October. This weekend we hung out at the trade fair. They had zucchine like last year but this year we bought three not just one. And they had hot peppers so i think we will can some salsa. very exciting.

Jesse has been working hard too. he organized a presentation at the trade fair (one on dairy safety and one as an health info fair). He has also been working on getting some new AIDS programs up and going and getting a project planning workhop off the ground. Rumors of health TV shows also abound. We have both been working with kids at the new english speakers club and get some satisfaction from that.

Nothing new with the ger...we winterized last weekend and then it promtly got warm again but no complaints from me.

Ok I think that is all. Just a quick update.

Cheers.