Happy chinese new year :) Had a lovely dinner last night, made chinese food and dumplings for 30 dear friends here in Jordan. I'll post more photos later, the cooking was insane, but the evening was a blast. We topped off the night with Lilie's beautiful dessert: fried banana mango spring rolls dipped in melted nutella...YUM.

I've also posted some photos of our cooking lessons (been giving roland some basic asian cooking lessons...it's been a blast) for you curious folk you can see some of our creations on my flickr site

update

It's February!! :) who knew time could fly by so fast. It's been a blur these last few months living here. I had my reality check yesterday when I went to the medical bookstore to buy some books for my upcoming sub-internships and my psychiatry rotation. Just a few more months and I'll be back in Ohio on the wards and Jordan will be a distant dream or somewhat fuzzy blurred memory. It's been a good trip so far, not totally what i had expected when i chose to accept this grant but I'm happy nonetheless about where i'm sitting at this point. I'm at the moment planning some health education classes at the community center- talks on nutrition, diabetes, and high blood pressure. I'm realizing just how much I enjoy doing health education and prevention topics, perhaps the family med/prev med route isn't such a bad idea for me afterall. the paths that life takes sometimes suprises me, but i suppose it keeps things interesting :)