Early start as the taxi was due at 715 and are always early, so packed bags, said goodbyes and taxi was indeed here by 7... Felt I'll again this morning, beer/malaria?!? Bit nervous that they wouldn't let us fly because we have no onward flight to Malawi. All went smoothly and apart from a few power cuts the time flew past with blog entries and cards. Net nice black chap who was on route to Frankfurt to a conference on global warming.. We headed to check in 30...

After the late night with milo (semi pro baseball player!!), we had a bit of a lie in as the kids were at school. Yesterday we saw some of the more affluent areas of addis, so decided to have a mooch around there. After a fair walk and speaking to yet again another student we decided as our last night here we would do something more active than a night in. So we changed £10 at western union bank, which took about 30 mins!! Athough good service, and treated ours...

Real early start as kids don't go school today and wake up half 6.... As we slept in the only big room in the house I thought I better get up and clear up!! Tom wasn't pleased with his early start! For breakfast I tried some Papaya, I thought it tasted rather like cheese, although this may be an unfair judgement as I had not long before brushed my teeth!!! Today we were fortunate enough to see the "Ethiopian great run". This happens once a year and is a major...

This morning Tom and I woke up several times in the night to mosquito's high pitched buzzing around our heads. I think we both were a bit worried as we were told malaria is not in addis, and therefore assumed no mozzys!! So not much sleep! Tom was a bit grouchy first thing, I think it's probably because he got leas sleep than me.. We went to an orphanage with kath. The place was in deep suburbia, but looked really clean and better than I had expected after we ha...

Last night we were invited to the British embassy to go and partake in a themed quiz night. The quiz was scottish themed. We lost and tom refused to do the dookin challenge because he had just put some creams on his face!! Haha We net a few new people who were mostly teacher like the chap were staying with. They had all been away from the Uk for years traveling the world and working as teachers.. Average age of about 45.. Got some good information from them all....