NGO Bazaar
At the International Evangelical Church, once a month there is a bazaar with all the NGO's selling products. There were representatives from the Women Fuelwood Carriers Project, Alert Hospital, Former Leprosy groups, Disabled crafters, Women for Change, Women's Development Project and lots of others, all great organizations and amazing handicrafts. We all went nuts with shopping and even with a big purchase for myself(this great quilt), I only spent about $140 US.
Ferengi's In the Rain
One day, Jen and I were at Kaldi's getting a coffee, writing and cutting out crafts, and we decided it was time to go home-- of course, it instantly started raining and we do not have rain coats or wellies. Do we stop like every Ethiopian? No, we keep going and it starts to hail... and they are hard and hurt. We are soaking wet, people are motioning to us to come under the awnings, mini buses are stopping and yelling at us, but at this point we are cold, wet and dirty and there is no point in stopping. We make it home and Selam and our guard cannot stop laughing. Later after the rain stopped, we had to go out again and Selam kept pointing to our wellies and saying chammas, like take your shoes. Well, we made quite the spectacle, with our wellies and raincoats on a mini bus in the sun. One person even asked us what are shoes were called. When we said they were chammas for the zenob(rain), we got some very funny looks.
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