I looked at that, the internships when I first put it out, I’d have over 100 applications for the one position, and, you know, getting rid of the top, getting down to the top 20 was pretty easy. Getting down to the top five or eight was just extremely hard. Picking the final one was just terrible. Like we discussed last night, you know, any one of those eight or nine people could have just done a super job, but I just had to kind of decide which one that worked best with me, and after only maybe a 20- or 30-minute-interview. Did they come in to be interviewed by you, or did you travel around — I traveled out round to them, at that time, one of my perks was to go to the orthopedic meeting in a ski meeting for veterinary orthopedics had, so I’d fly out to the meeting, and I gave a few papers there on letting the orthopods know that I have a orthopedic practice too in the zoo, and then I do a little bit things different than dogs and cats when I have to work on birds, and various other things. And so then I would try to set up, I’d come back by a serendipitous route, maybe through Chicago or, you know, down and pick up and interview, two or three people, they’d come to the airport to meet me, and we’d sit down, have a beer, or just sit down and have some coffee, and chat for maybe less than an hour. And then that’s, but getting back to your question on foreign, I looked at some, but they just did not have the qualifications, you know, and this gets back to after we had a pretty good program established at National Zoo, various foreign zoos wanted to send veterinarians over to study with us, you know, like for six weeks or, you know, two weeks or one week or something, and so at first I said, “Well you know, we’re a Smithsonian, we’re, you know, we’re obligated to the diffusion of knowledge”, which is part of the logo, the Smithsonian, so I’d bring them over and you know, the equipment we had and what we were doing was just quite a few levels above what they were trained to do, or had the equipment to do, and so I could just see these kids getting so disappointed to go back and have to try to work in their situation without the equipment and without a lot of the training. And so I did that for a few years, and then I just said, “No, let’s do it the other way around.
