So when the team arrived on Monday their luggage DID not, and after being stranded in Sudan for 2 days with NO luggage there either, they were MORE THAN READY to change their clothes. We got a call around 11pm that night that it had arrived so Jen ( my friend from Kazakhstan and world traveler extraordinaire) and I called a driver to pick us up. Our first hilarious event from that night was that we got the ONLY driver that speaks ZERO English. After some sign language and a pen and paper we let him know that we have 28 bags to pick up. He laughed and I am sure wished secretly that he stayed in bed instead of answering his phone. We arrived at the airport and with ZERO security check and not one person that checked for bag tags at all, we walked in picked up 28 bags, bribed the customs guy with a pair of shoes, persuaded the customs boss with 9 passports, paid 7 guys to help us out, loaded up the van with 28 bags, met some strange Italian and Habesha man in the parking lot ( that were DRUNK), got in the van drove home, unloaded the bags and guess what ALL IN LESS then an hour. Yeah we rocked it. We laughed the whole way home, thinking about why we didn't throw an extra few bags onto out cart.
This morning was a " day off" in Korah. Well whatever that means right. Hahha. There was no team there today but to tell the whole truth, IT IS NEVER A DAY OFF IN Korah :). We headed over to the kitchen ( mind you it is the same place they use the bathroom so I would not picture it as a "kitchen" but whatever. TIA right- I will explain that later or did I already? LOL) Anyway we wanted some coffee so we maneuvered our way around these huge piles of what looked like mud ( later to find out was not mud but..... Well you figure it out). While we were drinking our coffee we had this hilarious conversation in our TERRIBLE Amharic and their terrible English. All I got from it was Shint and Shita. ( shint means urine and Shita means smell at the time we had no idea what those words meant but our thought were exactly the same). I have not laughed that hard since I have been here. It was nice. I needed it. Gotta go sleep now.
Another day in Korah tomorrow. There are so many things I am going to miss here. Even dodging big piles of things that should not be near the food area.
Kisses from Ethiopia.
This morning was a " day off" in Korah. Well whatever that means right. Hahha. There was no team there today but to tell the whole truth, IT IS NEVER A DAY OFF IN Korah :). We headed over to the kitchen ( mind you it is the same place they use the bathroom so I would not picture it as a "kitchen" but whatever. TIA right- I will explain that later or did I already? LOL) Anyway we wanted some coffee so we maneuvered our way around these huge piles of what looked like mud ( later to find out was not mud but..... Well you figure it out). While we were drinking our coffee we had this hilarious conversation in our TERRIBLE Amharic and their terrible English. All I got from it was Shint and Shita. ( shint means urine and Shita means smell at the time we had no idea what those words meant but our thought were exactly the same). I have not laughed that hard since I have been here. It was nice. I needed it. Gotta go sleep now.
Another day in Korah tomorrow. There are so many things I am going to miss here. Even dodging big piles of things that should not be near the food area.
Kisses from Ethiopia.
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