Well just had half term in which me and my sister tried to go to
Djibouti but had visa problems(after spending a whole week and half trying, with the embassy telling us ofcourse we'll get them in time ) so we didnt make it but just being out
of Addis was nice,
cleaner and warmer air, and relaxing. we went to Dira dawa where i got eaten alive by mosquito's and then to
Harar which is the third or fourth holy city of islam, its this tiny
little city all inside walls its like stepping back in time and in this
tiny space there are 82 mosques, its truly beautiful. Also we fed wild
hyenas, the community have a long running tradition of feeding the
hyenas from the bush every night to keep the peace and it works so
lovely, we were very scared at first but in the end we had them eating of our backs, so brave, wish i could feed Hyenas every night. On the 13 hour bus ride home, in which my sister ran out my iphone battery in the first couple of hours....great fun, the driver swerved to not hit a donkey and ended up with two flat tyres, we got off in the middle of nowhere in a countryside village. It was like a film scene the locals were coming up to me and Billie and running away when they got too close, anyway that was atleast another hour. The bus rides were quite nice though, got too see alot more of Ethiopia, even saw a baboon on the way there, the bus driver slowed down and someone threw a croissant out the window, the baboon started unwrapping it and baby baboons were running up to him, sooo cute.
I am fine enjoying Ethiopia but at the same time counting the days till
i'm back, no place like home i suppose. Survived a racist near attack by a drunk
women yesterday. I was walking home and bumped into Bareate, ( my best friend here ) and other friends, Salem, Euelle and Tamrat, stood talking to them when a women starts
shouting, obviously i didn't know what was being said but i heard the word
faranji which means white person, at first the girls were laughing then
they looked worried and start telling me to go inside, the whole street
starts shouting, all going mad, i went inside and watched out the
window, Gold ( bro in law )came back and started shouting at the women, she walked off,
Gold made me come outside and everyone was saying Isosh ( be brave )
then i went into the salon when i came out everyone said she came back looking for me, she was arrested. lol
alot of commotion. School break was nice but miss the kids, sometimes i feel
like there is too many hours in the day here, the opposite of in England, 50%
looking forward to going back 50% cant be bothered. The short rains have started, it rains very heavily for about 2-4 hours a day, thunder, lightning the lot, its quite nice, atleast its not all day.
Few things ive learnt : -
ALL Ethiopian men love Celine Dion
chips on pizza or in pasta is a thing
Embassy's lie
