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We hope that you had a great summer. OLEG, Inc had an exciting, productive and ground breaking summer. We completed our first project "New Athens, New Jerusalem: A study of Medieval Philosophy and Art in the Country of Georgia" safely and successfully in July 2009. Our exciting program saw 14 new Americans travel to the country of Georgia and study with over 30 actual and potential students and faculty of New Gelati Academy, within Grigol Robakidze University in Tbilisi, Georgia. In this newsletter you get updates about our 2009 summer program as well as what is happening with OLEG right now.

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Tim Merkel, a student from St. John's College, found the opportunity through OLEG to support a cause, grow as a student and travel outside of the United states for the first time. He loved it so much he wants to go back. He writes:

On October 5th, 2009 Jumberi Chkuaseli passed away at his home in Tsitelmta, Georgia at the age of 69. I first met Jumberi as I walked up to his home, a home that his ancestors built over 250 years ago and still stands today. The day before our coordinator and friend Lika Megreladze had requested that Jumberi teach our group of Americans to sing Georgian folk songs. A small group of us went to meet him in Guria in June before our large group of 14 came in August. He quickly took us in and sat us around a table and started to teach us "Suliko".