Yay Internet!

On Tuesday, we visited our school for only a couple of hours since the students were writing exams.  Because we had the afternoon off we decided it might be fun to go to the Bole area which is the "hip" area with all the malls.  It's a bit out of town, so we took 3 public buses/vans to get there (which squish about 20 people in them and cost about 10 cents canadian).  About 5 minutes after we arrived, a guy walking in front of us stopped to tie his shoe.  As we walked around him him, he hacked and spit on me.  It was so disgusting... He immediately apologized profusely and ran up to me with a Kleenex to help clean my arm ( Jenn was already on it, as she is the wet nap queen).  As he was trying to "help" someone yelled out "close your purse, close your purse!"  Then I remembered reading about this scam.  I was lucky that he didn't end up stealing anything from me thanks to Jenn and the helpful local.  If anyone else tries to spit on me again, I will surely spit on them back and maybe give them a taste of the Canadian cuisine -knuckle sandwich. (Kidding mom)

I decided I would need 5 good things to happen before I could get over the spit incident and you know what...they happened within about an hour.  1) We met a guy on the bus home who was from Addis, but lived in England for 7 years and he paid all our bus fare. 2) An old man came up to us and said " welcome welcome to Addis we are so happy to see you here" 3) The woman at the electronic store gave us our surge protector for 100 Birr off the ticketed price. 4) The local telling me to close my purse. And finally 5) A woman who was mopping our guesthouse said she loved our hair and wondered if we could bring her a washing machine from Canada haha. 

Yesterday we spent the morning at our school observing the spoken English classes.  All three of us have been put into the kindergarten wing (we are in heaven).  The kids are SO cute and spent the better part of the morning staring at us and trying to hold our hands. We are mostly settled in to this city and maybe even enjoying MOST of the experiences that come along with it.

Today we are observing a few different classes and then it's the weekend!  On Saturday we are going to visit the other guest house to see what it's like/ how far it is and then volunteering at an orphanage for the afternoon.  Hope everyone is doing well... I'm going to try and post this before the Internet stops!

The Sheridan Pool - Hot shower-Yeah!