almost famous

Well we could not wait to roll into the Montcalm County 4H Fair in Greenville because we had a shiny new exhibit to set up and show off. Our large animal veterinarian bowie-unit came complete with another great and knowledgeable veterinary student coordinator - Erin! Erin had spent the better part of June power-washing, painting, and stocking the bowie-unit so that she could better display a very vital part of veterinary medicine - large animal medicine! And boy did the fair-goers of Greenville eat it up. You guys kept us all busy with your interest and enthusiasm, particularly in your 4H animals.


In Greenville, we especially liked the way some of you spent awhile with us learning about anything and everything veterinary, and then you came back again later to teach your friends and family! You helped us save our voices, and did a great job teaching! I think there might be a few budding science teachers and professors scattered in with all of the future veterinarians we got to know so well.


Now the fair-goers of Greenville will have to forgive Christina, because she left her digital camera in East Lansing, and therefore the student coordinators were stuck with a disposable camera as they tried to capture the fair atmosphere via photographs. Fortunately, you were all good-looking enough that the pictures still turned out fairly well despite the poor quality!

On Wednesday, the coordinators all set personal records as we clicked our clickers counting the number of people we talked to. We each talked to over 350 of you! Wednesday was "Kids Day" and even though we were not one of the required stations to stop at on route to a new bicycle helmet, you all made sure you checked us out anyway! We were excited to hear that many of you thought we were the best thing at "Kid's Day", and even more excited to hear you tell everyone what learned from us on your way out of barn!

Last (but certainly not least!), the HPSS took another small step in the direction of international stardom. The Daily News featured a story on the exhibit and it appeared on the FRONT PAGE of the Tuesday newspaper (not that we were surprised though, right?)!

Thank you to all of our friends in Greenville for making our experience a memorable one! Tomorrow we steer toward the Eaton County Fair for our third stop on the HPSS 2009 summer adventure!