The week has gotten much better, not that it had anywhere else to go but up. The town we are in is gorgeous, but very hot. It's down in a valley, so we don't enjoy the temperate, mountain climates we are experiencing where we currently live. It's not that it's any hotter than in the states (probably low 90s), but because we are almost on the equator the sun is very intense, especially in the afternoon. Fortunately, with it being warmer, fruits are very popular and easily accesible here. Bonus for me as I will eat just about any kind of fruit. The compound that we are going to be living on has 3 mango trees and 2 papaya trees. We had a mango, but I'm interested to try a papaya for the first time. I also bought bananas from the market that looked like they were steriod injected.
Speaking of our living situation. It is a row of 3 rooms all about 8 by 8 in size. One will be our bedroom, one the kitchen, and one the living room. There is a guy who is renting a room next to ours, and he is really friendly and speaks pretty good english. I found out that my counterpart, whom I mentioned a couple posts ago, is our landlords 22 year old daughter and lives on the compound as well, so that's kind of interesting.
Our ride back to Addis today was much better than on the way down the previous Saturday, but it was still 13 hours. Also, when we were walking from the bus station to the hotel we were staying at for the night, we experienced our first theft. Somebody grabbed at the bookbag that Kim had on and managed to get our iPod out of it. We were pretty upset about it, but grateful that it was just the iPod and not money or our passports. Also, we did insure it before we left, so we should be able to replace it. We are looking forward to returning to our little mountain village tomorrow afternoon, after being gone for almost 2 weeks.
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