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

Yesterday was a good adventure. I think I needed it. The morning didn’t start out too early and I slept in a little which was nice. A crew of us are touring the WFG project sites over the next few days—yesterday we arrived in Bensa. We left Hawassa around 8:00am and got out to Bensa

Yesterday was good and boring. I woke up around 6, had my breakfast of 6 eggs and then off to work. One of my favorite things are these donkey riders. Carts and donkeys are used frequently for transporting large quantities of goods around the city. But when there’s nothing on the carts, the guys (sometimes

Yesterday was a fairly lazy day. I spent most of it reading. I’m a little upset because the WiFi at the house stopped working this weekend and the landlord wasn’t too urgent about fixing it. It’s not too big of a problem because I can just walk the 10 minutes to the office and settle

Wow! Yesterday was day 100! Unfortunately I was tired and in a bad mood because I was kept up by mosquitoes invading my room. But when I did get up around 9, I started my day off with a run around part of the Hawassa lake. The lake is close to 50 miles in diameter,