Misc Stuff Ethiopia VIII

From: Dan Trumble
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007
Subject: TTT The Trumble Travels - Misc Stuff Ethiopia VIII

Ethiopia is a very interesting place. Here are some final pictures and comments.

I bought this map on the street for 40 birr (about $4.50). The first price the guy said was 80 birr so I did pretty well…or maybe not. Someone else had this guy or some other willing to sell one of these maps for 20 birr…oh well.


Devil Soup at a Chinese Restaurant

Dan with a sweat rag

Most of the folks involved in the CIV meetings.

Rodeo Addis ---- ???

Habesha Restaurant – a traditional Ethiopian restaurant. The waitress has injera in the basket.

Hand washing, traditional seating (we sat on more typically western-style chairs, not the round ones in the second picture below), food to eat with injera, and Dr. Alemayehu and me.

Macchiato (a chocolaty coffee-ish drink)

Ethiopians work off of a different time system than most of the rest of us. What we think of as 7:00 is 1:00 to Ethiopians. Here are a couple of examples of clocks on Ethiopian time compared to my watch which is on the time system to which I’m accustomed.

Haile Sellassie I was the last emperor of Ethiopia. He was overthrown by the Communists in the early 1970s and was later executed. He is the one that is viewed as the Messiah by Rastafarians. The other guy is Dan. He is not viewed as the Messiah by anyone (which is good).

Kids in Spiderman and Batman outfits

Just like most of the rest of the world soccer is a big deal in Ethiopia. Pictured are a bunch of really good guys but I don’t know all of their names. Here are some of them. From left to right:

Mystery Good Guy -- Roberto Carlos – Another Mystery Good Guy – David Beckham – Ronaldinho – Henry – Raul – Mystery Good Argentinean Guy

We watched some of the championship game of the FA Cup between Chelsea and Manchester United. Drogba (a good guy) saved the day for Chelsea in the end. It was a typical high scoring football match: Scoreless at the end of regulation with a final of 1-0 at the end. Good grief.

Never heard of the FA Cup? 687 teams participated in the most recent quest for the FA Cup.
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup

Ronaldinho is a really good guy from Brasil that plays for Barcelona in club play. Below are some Ronaldinho things from around the world.
Brasil: Texaco Ethiopia: Orange jersey on left Uganda: Minibus Burkina Faso: The other two jerseys Ethiopia: Pepsi ad

On Monday morning I left Addis Ababa to head home. On the way to London we stopped briefly in Alexandria. We didn’t even deplane so that wasn’t all that exciting but we did fly near some of the pyramids. This may be one of the worst pictures you’ve ever seen of the pyramids but it is what it is (buy a postcard or something if you want a really good picture).

The arrow on the left side of the page points to what may be pyramids but the little highlighted box is definitely at least two pyramids…pretty cool!