3.04.10



For Sabbath service we went to the biggest church in Awassa. The program was around 3,5 h. After that we went to the lake and ate all together 6 fish.

After 6pm we went to different gold shops and got something for one special person.

We were laughing all the time that doing nothing is so exhausting:)

On Sunday Adane and Merle went swimming in a pool. I was eating (the most disgusting) ice-cream and looking at the monkeys who were quite close to us. They didn’t like me as much as I liked them, showed their teeth most of the time.

In the afternoon we thought of catching a bus and getting back to Sodo. Went to the bus station, there were about 10 other people also wanting to go to Sodo but because of the holiday no buses were going. So we went to Tiringo’s brothers apartment. 2 of his brothers and her sister are living there. We spent a nice evening with the guys.

Easter is a big holiday here so there were many goats on the street. They all looked very sad - they knew that it’s not so good holiday for them. On Sunday there were many goat skins on the streets and also chicken guts. Everywhere we went, they offered us goat or chicken wot for lunch.

We finally left Awassa on Monday morning. Asking what time the bus leaves we got an answer: „It might come around 5am and leave maybe at 6am” Actually we got to the station after 6am and it left 6.30. Here they wait until the bus is full so it might even take 2h:)

150 km trip took us 3h. Half of the road was ok but the other half was 1km of asphalt and 1km of gravel taking turns…

I hurried to school to find out that there was only 1 more lesson left and afternoon the holiday continued - no classes.

In the evening i went to the internet place. Of course there were several problems :) There was one man called Chu Chu who is also a frequent client. He asked me for soft drinks (we hoped the server to be fixed but of course that did not happen:) ). So we chatted and found out that Ethiopia is small - we already found out we have some people we both know.

Merle bought a lot of pottery for…30 or 40 birr:) Only problem is getting it back :)