settling into Ethiopian life

Hi
Everything here is tiru that means good in amharic, my amharic is coming along after about 8 hours of lessons so far, it seemed very very difficult at first now it is just difficult it is so unlike european languages that you have to just give up trying to find translations or understand the logic, to say hello you basically ask someone how they are how their family is how the harvest went how their cows are and so on it can last ten minutes but it is a nice language too as it is very polite.
Also getting to like the food here had mince meat and scrambbled egg for breakfast and injera for lunch, the injera is nice it is like a lemony pancake.
Went to the museum today and saw Lucy our ancestor it was very interesting.
Well so far so good here and thanks for all the comments,
I'll post again soon.

Arrived Safe and Sound

Hi all,
Arrived safe and sound here in Addis Ababa, last night at about 2am. The weather was lovely up till two minutes ago when it began to thunder and lightening and raining but its fine. The VSO people here are really nice and are really looking after us and they have a good two week programme of training and sight seeing planned for us.
Addis is very like I expected.

well I only have a few mintutes now so I'll post again soon,

Slan

Orla