It was a holiday yesterday—Labor Day. I spent my morning booking flights and applying for a visa for Tanzania in lieu of my itinerary alterations. I did a little bit of work because I’ve been assigned a new task of some data analysis and I need to learn the softwares. At noon I decided to […]

Yesterday was interesting. I woke up around 3:00am and couldn’t get back to sleep no matter what I tried. I’ve been stressed out recently because my Ethiopian visa was supposed to be extendable, but now I’m finding that it is “not valid for extension”. More about that issue later. At 4:00 I gave up trying

Yesterday was very eventful and quite the mixed bag. My morning started off normal. I had my breakfast and then spent some time getting ready for the day. I found myself with an extra hour because I had woken up earlier than normal, and spent that time setting up my LinkedIn. I went to work

Time is starting to fly here in Hawassa. I think being busy is the cause of that. Yesterday was a normal day. I left for work around 7:45 and arrived at 8:00. I really enjoy having a short walk to work—if I need extra sleep or want to go home during the day it’s possible.

It was good to get back to work yesterday. Much to my displeasure, the power is still being finicky. A lot of my daily activities require reliable electricity, so I’m starting to get a little upset. For example, to cook any food I use a little portable electric stove. I missed out on breakfast yesterday

I’m very glad I got to rest a little bit yesterday. In the morning I went for a walk along the main road. I think Sunday must be the day everyone has their wedding here—I saw many parades of cars honking up and down this road, announcing pairs of newlyweds. It’s fun to see during

Yesterday was super fun. I was able to get out and tour the city of Hawassa a bit. My morning started with a walk to the hotel where a few coworkers were staying. I had some breakfast there with them before we were kicked out—the prime minister of Ethiopia is visiting there this weekend and

Yesterday was nice. First day back at the office after the field visits. I had missed my morning routine. Unfortunately the power went out right as I was making my eggs. I just cracked them into the pan when the stove snapped off and I was a bit sad to miss my breakfast, but it

Yesterday started off early. We hit the road around 6:30am with a busy day of site seeing on the horizon We made it to the town of Kokosa nearly 4 hours later after a bumpy ride through villages and countryside. All of us were really hungry, not having had time to eat breakfast. I was

Yesterday was excellent but very tiring. I woke up too early in the morning, my alarm still had 30 minutes before it was supposed to go off, but I couldn’t get back to sleep and was a bit antsy. I used my extra time to go out into the town of Bensa and walk around