11-10-2017
Didn’t sleep. I am used to sleeping with white noise. In the
quiet of the night I hear the packs of dogs barking with an occasional donkey’s
cry, Simay’s son sporadically crying and my own racing thoughts. Maybe it’s the
time change creeping up on me. Maybe it’s because I am not in my own bed.
I was up early and Girma took me to his brother Tinsae’s
work. I had buna (coffee) and a burger for breakfast. The plan was to meet up
with Assegid and visit his school however Tinsae got a text message that he
would have to change plans today.
So instead we visited the national museum. Last time I was
here I went with their brother Worku but now I have a much better Camera. So we
visited with Dinkenesh (Lucy) and some even older ancestors like Salam.
Shiro with Injara for lunch. The rest of the day I spent
drawing Simay’s son, resting, watching ebs (Ethiopian Broadcasting System)
which is a TV channel comparable to PBS, and waiting to see if anything goes on
this evening. Tomorrow I will go purchase my ticket to fly to Dire Sunday.
Hopefully I can sleep tonight because I feel the tired creeping at my eyes.
I made dinner for everyone tonight. I kept trying to think
of easy American food I could make for everyone, but in the end I made Mexican
food and explained that since in Texas we are so close to Mexico it’s one of
our favorite foods to eat.
Beef is expensive and harder to find so I made sheep soft
tacos. I made the four tortillas, guacamole, pico, and rice and beans. I used
the beans popular here and they didn’t turn out the way I wanted to but
everything else came out well. I even had some packets of Taco Casa hot sauce
with me for them to try. It was a success!
I taught my family here how to play Farkle (a dice game kind
of like yhatze or poker), read a bit and finally about to crash.
