The news today is that another trainee announced he was resigning and going home. He has a girlfriend in the states just like the other trainee that resigned and he decided the relationship is too important to give up. I wish him the best of luck. If you are counting, we started with 27 and are now down to 24.

Yesterday the three of us trainees in Belsh were able to facilitate a meeting with the members of the high school government and other interested students. I helped take them through a problem identification process in order to help them generate ideas for what kind of issues they would like to address as we help them during our community project. We have no direct money available for the project, so their top two concerns of new computers and equipment for their "chemistry lab" will have to be saved for another day. Thursday we are having another meeting for all who are interested in helping compose a school newspaper. It was one of the ideas they suggested and it really seems doable, with a little help from the PC office. We might also try to organize some money-making activities so that we can work to improve the school grounds. I will try to take some pictures and post them so that you can see the conditions these kids learn in everyday.

I'm glad that many of you wrote and told me that you saw the pictures I posted. I will try to post more in the near future.

On a closing note, I was able to enjoy calf intestines and stomach for dinner the other night. I didn't want to offend my family, so I told them that I didn't really like the stomach and I like the intestines, so they took away the stomach and gave me more intestines. Kind of backfired on me. I can't complain though. The food here has been better than I expected.