12/9/09

This is a week of feasts in our small town.  It is the final week that we are here before we move on to our permanent sites and all the host families seem to want us over for a meal.  Last night we had a huge meal of doro (chicken), injera, gomen (various greens), dabo (bread), rice, carrots, misr wat (a spicy sauce), quinoa wat (I'm not really sure what this is, but it's similar to couscous), soft drinks, muz (bananas), and bunna (coffee).  It was a fantastic meal and the chicken was the best meat I've had here in country outside of a restaurant.
 

Saturday, Peace Corp is holding an appreciation dinner for the host families and volunteers.  Sunday, another host family is having us over for lunch and we are having pasta and some arabian dish.  For supper we are going to another house, then for supper on Monday night we are going to one other house.  It's crazy, but it makes me feel so good that they want to do something so nice for us.  We will definitely miss this place that we have lived for the last 8 weeks, but we are looking forward to our next location.

12/6/09

Today was the best day I've had here in country so far.  I woke up at 4:45 this morning because our group was going on a hike to see the sunrise.  At 5, when I was still brushing my teeth, my family called me to tell me that Alabama beat the daylights out of Florida to win the SEC Championship and put them in the National Championship game.  After that I was literally floating on cloud nine all day long.
 

Our hike was a success and we had quite a bit of fun, even though it was pretty chilly.  Later that day, we went with our entire group to an area that has several lakes for a field trip that PC treated us to.  We had lunch and just hung out by the lake, it was a very nice day.
Also, this week I typed up my first entry into the PC Ethiopia newsletter.  It's a sports column as many could have guessed.  I'm not much of a writer, but I really enjoyed it and I hope I can continue to do it.  Well that's all for now, hopefully I'll have more to write later.