Bole Rock Hotel Addis Ababa

... gente viene dalle suore di loro spontanea volontà perché sono molto brave e nell&#8217;ospedale di stato spesso e volentieri non hanno possibilità di curarli.<br><br>Terminato il nostro &#8220;giro turistico&#8221; siamo rientrati in Prefettura per il pranzo.<br><br>Piter, puntuale come sempre, ci è venuto a prendere e ci ha riportato agli uffici dell&#8217;Ethiopian. Il convoglio non era ancora pronto e allora abbiamo iniziato a girare in jeep lungo il mercato ...

... impossible task, given the narrow streets, ultracrowded with people buying and selling everything you could imagine. The experience made us realize that it was actually a good thing that we couldn't make it to the Merkato at the beginning of our trip: (a) we would've been walking around with a bunch of money and a decent chance of being pickpocketed; (b) we probably would've gotten lost, considering it's the biggest market in Africa, and then missed our flight to ...

... National Museum in Addis Ababa. We passed through these exhibitions with our guide, and continued to another cultural exhibition with findings from earlier cultures of Ethiopia. The next stop was the Ethnological Museum, or at least - what we thought was this museum. We knew that it was located in past Haile Selassie's palace. Our driver insisted that the Ethnological Museum was closed, but despite it he took us to the Haile Selassie Museum! Well ...

... lines and barriers, tight corners and ditches. It seems we are also donating half of Sudan in dust form. I managed to pack in the candelabras, my metallic boule set, 3 tents and various other items left by others that had to be taken back to England. There is still a huge amount of sports, medical and school equipment to be distributed. We also had a lot of food left over, including most of a sack of rice, lots of dried noodles and even a large tin of ...

Back in Addis, we prepared for a lunch that Richelle hosted for the community leaders of the Gedam Sefer project. The final program and performance was on Sunday morning followed by lunch at Richelle and Nate's apartment. We had a DELICIOUS dinner at a Lebanese restaurant which was accompanied by a very awkward belly dancer. I'm assuming the pickings must be slim in Ethiopia for belly dancers, because this girl was bad ...

... held or kissed quite as much as today. This transition is not very shocking for the children. They always know that they are going to be adopted by a family in Canada and the workers talk to them about it a lot. Krista and Grant had also sent pictures of themselves, family, friends, home, pets, etc. for Noah to see and understand before going back to Canada. His favorite part was 'talking' about his cat and showing us all the pictures and ...

Met up with Ragna and Amiram today, ex-colleagues of Matt's from Conergy. They used to work in the Singapore office and like Matt, decided to leave the company after it was plagued with problems, and do the next best thing: travel Africa. The two are avid cyclists and are taking a year to explore this vast continent by bike, stopping along the way to give workshops and seminars on environmental ...

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... the filter by installing the sand medium and tested the flow rate of the water. The local sand was too fine and therefore the flow rate was unacceptably slow. We need to return to the site and modify the filtration system using a different grade of sand. Back at the workshop in Logiya, 2 more fresh concrete water filters were prepared before nightfall so that they could set by morning. Sick Bay Team Report: With 4 persons of the Team ...

... one of the men, dressed in raw goatskin, calmly made towards me and tried to sit down on my lap. This, I'm afraid, was too much for my slightly frayed nerves and I told the man forcefully but relatively politely that this would not do. Unfazed, he pulled up some kind of goatskin cushion, and sat himslef down contentedly in the aisle. Fortunately, the journey finished less than an hour afterwards, and Charles and I found ourselves in the frankly unpleasant town of ...