June 2007
1 post
Update
Okay okay I am very behind on maintaining my blog. Here is some stuff I wrote a while ago. Since these entries, alot has happened and chnaged, so I have to get my butt in gear and start writing….til then, The smells of Addis: Food, grilled meat, diesel, pollution, urine, fecal matter, dead animal carcass, sewage and of course coffee (not necessarily on that order) I need to start keeping...
May 2007
2 posts
A good day
Let’s start backwards. At about 1:30 am, my night ended with me and my fellow Condom Project friend, Tim, looking out of his 6th floor window onto the median in the road. We argued how many sheep were grazing. He easily said 85. My max was 60. Those numbers quickly went up when another herder came down the street with his 100+ sheep. I tried to take pictures, I still need to play with it to...
My first week in Addis
I am here in Addis Ababa, almost a week now. From the moment I stepped off the plane, I have been hard at work. Meeting after
meeting-adjusting to the time change, jet lag, the high elevation, and wanting to get settled in has made my first week rather exhausting. It hasn’t been overwhelming because we have been moving fast. I haven’t had a real chance to process a great deal. In...