Here is me and my new haircut again!

Things are getting better here socially, luckily for me ‘cause I can’t stand being lonely.

Holger is really fun and last weekend I went partying with him and met some more people, amongst others an interesting German sociologist, Martin.

He also took me hiking with a Canadian girl, Emily. My condition sucks and I don’t handle the altitude well but I did survive. The delicious pumpkin soup that I had afterwards made it all worth while! Emily is also lovely and she then introduced me to a designer friend from NY, Marisol with whom I went to the hills around Addis today.

Once the ball starts rolling… It feels so good.

Yesterday I went out and met Ethiopian couch-surfers that Martin knew and I also got to speak Spanish to other Faranjis at the bar, the honey wine was abundant and today I feel the results… The fact that the stupid mosque called me out of dreamland for prayers at 5am didn’t help either.

So socially all is well sadly enough I can’t say the same for the school. The unintelligent rules and the way they blindly follow them gets to me more every day. From time to time I feel the only way I will be able to stay there and be happy is to care less about my teaching and my students. I am not willing to do that so I’m starting to look for other options and I am not the only one so far 6 out of our group of 8 foreign teachers are looking to abandon ship.
We’ll see how that goes. In the mean time cross your fingers.

By the way, everybody that has been mailing me, thank you so much, I really enjoyed hearing from home. Still emailing isn’t easy here so please excuse me if I take a while to answer.

Short but to the point this time also working to hard to have many adventures…

Pictures from my hike with Holger and Emily...