Sunday, January 28, 2007

For Wally



I was told that Wally checks our blog every week and calls Nan to let her know what is up in Mongolia. Well it has been a disappointing month of no new blogs, so this is for Wally.

We have lots of good news.

1) Jesse was accepted into STANFORD medical school. so that is pretty exciting, but isn't making the decision any easier. Although it is hard to say no to sunny cali and ivy league....

2) We got a new kitty as you can see. She found us. She was meowing outside our door and when we opened it up she dashed inside and refused to leave for about 7 days. Didn't even like to walk by the door. She was more than half starved. You could feel every bone in her little body. She ate 7 pounds of raw horse meat the first week! She has put on weight and isn't eating like a fiend anymore. We named her Cinder cuz within the first ten minutes she was curled up under the fireplace and covered in soot. She purrs alot and is quite cute. I call us her foster parents because we are not sure if we will take her home with us or not.

3) I got the resource room open. I am starting with a teachers club to improve spoken english and to have then utalize the resource room with their classes. We are right at semester change so we shall see who can make it. Thank you to those who sent books and materials, I couldn't have done it without you!

4) Work has been pretty good, for the last week or so jesse has daily given a presentation on quitting smoking and drinking to all the people who work at the government building. We also have been doing english club, getting ready for the english olympics in spring ( a big english competition in the aimag), and just completed our first pre-post natal parents group and health volunteers training. We did health topics (breast feeding, emotional health, choking...) and life skills ( money management, time management, exercise...). It went ok, more health volunteers than parents but i think it will be helpful to everyone in the end. The last day we did a 10 minute workout video with these 70 year old ladies. They were super cute and working hard. Wiping their brow when done. I am doing a soum social worker training tomorrow. Just found out this morning and not sure if i will have a translator, so it should be interesting.

I think that is it really. pretty good here, just got cold and super windy. i called in cold to work on friday afternoon... we are in pretty good health, my seasonal black lung is not too bad and jesse doesn't have a sinus infection.

ok thats all from us....
cheers

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home