Hawassa and the Way to Hawassa

We are in North Africa where many people still dress in Biblical clothing and goats and pack animals share the road with cars and trucks. 

Our journey from Addis to Hawassa was slow going with many detours and traffic issues (read: donkeys, goats, cows in the road). People pretty much live outside and the landscape is filled with farms (lots of corn), children, fields being plowed with the help of brahma bulls, and so on.

We stopped outside of Awassa at Peggy's friend Saba sister's house (did I get the punctuation right?) They live in a solid concrete house with tile floors -- they are wealthy Ethiopians because he is a pharmacist and she is a nurse.

They immediately plied us with St. George beer and soft drinks. As soon as your class was only half full, they opened another beer....happy happy!

They then served an Ethiopian meal with injera, false palm bread, and a huge homemade Ethiopian bread made from wheat and seeds (need to look up name of seed). 

Peggy had dropped off a suitcase and given Etenesh and Deme money and in exchange Peggy will be bringing 15 kilos of spices back to Seattle. That's a lot of spices! After a few hours we waddled into the car and made our way to the resort...started by two Olympiads.