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May. 7th, 2009 08:56 pmThings I Miss When In Ethiopia:
Ice Cream (Which is available, but rare, expensive, and not necessarily very nice - plus, I have no freezer.)
Sticky Rice (Even the Chinese restaurants serve a drier local variant, and the best I can do at the moment is basmati - but I may have found a source...)
Internet (Or at least, reliable and regular internet, not interrupted by power outages every 3-4 days, random telecoms outages, or the connection just not working.)
Things I'll Miss When Out Of Ethiopia
Tibs and Injera (Good injera, spongy and not too dry, and meat from an animal that may have wandered down my street in the past few days...)
Sourcing Good Groceries (It's the satisfaction that comes from taking the effort to know that you can get good sausages at *this* market, that *that* shack will sell nicer carrots, and there's this woman who sits on a blanket along the walk home that occasionally has green beans.)
Sleep (Because, guess what? Turns out that with no internet or television to distract and entertain me, I actually go to bed at a reasonable hour, and then I wake up at sunrise.)
Otherwise, things are going well - we have a lot of meetings of various kinds (Sector, Mainstreaming, Volunteer Committee) this month, so I'm out of the office a fair bit, but I'm hoping to be able to stay on top of things. Oh, and then there's the Cairo trip coming up, which should be fun! I'm thinking of booking a visit to England in late July - early August, so I hope I'll be able to see some people before they go off on holidays of their own.
Ice Cream (Which is available, but rare, expensive, and not necessarily very nice - plus, I have no freezer.)
Sticky Rice (Even the Chinese restaurants serve a drier local variant, and the best I can do at the moment is basmati - but I may have found a source...)
Internet (Or at least, reliable and regular internet, not interrupted by power outages every 3-4 days, random telecoms outages, or the connection just not working.)
Things I'll Miss When Out Of Ethiopia
Tibs and Injera (Good injera, spongy and not too dry, and meat from an animal that may have wandered down my street in the past few days...)
Sourcing Good Groceries (It's the satisfaction that comes from taking the effort to know that you can get good sausages at *this* market, that *that* shack will sell nicer carrots, and there's this woman who sits on a blanket along the walk home that occasionally has green beans.)
Sleep (Because, guess what? Turns out that with no internet or television to distract and entertain me, I actually go to bed at a reasonable hour, and then I wake up at sunrise.)
Otherwise, things are going well - we have a lot of meetings of various kinds (Sector, Mainstreaming, Volunteer Committee) this month, so I'm out of the office a fair bit, but I'm hoping to be able to stay on top of things. Oh, and then there's the Cairo trip coming up, which should be fun! I'm thinking of booking a visit to England in late July - early August, so I hope I'll be able to see some people before they go off on holidays of their own.