Thanks for reading my journal thus far, I hope you’ve enjoyed it! This marks the completion of Pre-Service Training and my first two and a half months in Mongolia as a Peace Corps Trainee. It also marks the beginning of my time as a Peace Corps Health Volunteer in Baruun-Urt and Sukhbaatar, about which I am very excited!

For the sake of keeping the Travel Journal more manageable, I will start splitting it into parts by season. This first part has lasted through the summer and included all of Pre-Service Training, and the next part will last through the fall and include beginning work in the hospital, moving into my new place, running Sukhbaatar’s first Haunted University, and having my first Christmas away from home in the capital of Mongolia with all of the other Peace Corps Volunteers during IST!

As always, I will try to keep things interesting and exciting and look forward to hearing what you all think about all the new journal entries! Thank you for all of your love and support. I miss you all very much and I look forward to talking to you each very soon!