Chamberlains Head to Mongolia in June

We are excited to announce that we will be heading to Mongolia with the Peace Corps on June 2, 2008. For 27 months, Nathan will be a business adviser working with community groups and NGOs like CFH International & Mercy Corps to facilitate the development of small businesses, agri-business, cooperative development in urban areas and tourism. Leslie will be a life skills trainer in community youth development. Besides working directly with local youth, she'll be creating and developing training programs for youth leaders, social workers, and staff for organizations working with children.

We'll fly to San Francisco on May 30, then on to Mongolia on June 2. We're super excited. And we super can't speak the language. We will spend three months in intensive classes, but we can't even pronounce the Russian-like Cyrillic letters yet. All we know about Mongolia is Genghis Khan, and the good things we've heard about their BBQ (which is neither Mongolian or BBQ, apparently.) As we learn more, we'll put it up on our blog, which is under construction.

In the meantime, Nathan's parents have offered to hold an open house for us May 17 in Wilmington, OH. We hope you'll pencil it in now and join us, because we'd love to see you. Because it's ridiculously expensive and we'll only be making a $124 a month, there's no guarantee we'll be home again until almost 2011!

Otherwise, Leslie is finishing up her music therapy masters comprehensive exams at Temple and is all set for her May 22 graduation (and birthday). We're out of Philly on April 28.

Hope to see you soon!