It’s about 5 p.m. here in Addis and I am killing time at the hotel until I get a ride around 8 p.m. for my 10:50 p.m. flight. I was able to do a little sightseeing in the city today and did a little shopping. Ethiopia definitely has a very distinctive culture.
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It’s funny how wrong your imaginings of a place can be. For example, I thought that Ethiopia was going to be hot and dry but this time of year it is green and cold. Last night was the first night that I was really cold when I went to bed. I had two blankets on me and finally warmed up. When I went outside this morning I could see my breath! At 9 degrees north latitude in August. I asked my hosts what they guessed the temperature was and they thought it was about 10 degrees C, which computes to 50F!
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Although I had viritually no access to the internet the past week, the time has been wonderful. The World Vision staff in Kenya and Ethiopia have been great. The hard part, really, is saying “good-bye” to them. We really get to know one another over our travels and I always feel a little teary when I have to leave.
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