Category: Activities: Landmarks
Activities: Historic Sites, GAP Program, Activities: Culture, Activities: Travel, Activities: Landmarks, Africa
Wednesday 5/21/14
On Wednesday morning we met with Dr. Hailu for our final presentation. He offered helpful suggestions for improvement, and we all felt satisfied by our work and his feedback.
In the afternoon, Dr. Hailu accompanied us to Entoto Maryam Church, a beautiful old building located up a winding forested road at the top of Addis. This is where original capital was, since it served as a strategic overlook, and where King Menelik II was crowned in the late 1800s. We saw many women carrying large bundles of firewood on their back up the hilly roads.
Skiles and I set out to find what we felt was the main attraction of western China, nature. It didn't go quite as we envisioned it though.
Activities: Historic Sites, GAP Program, Activities: Culture, Activities: Travel, Activities: Landmarks, Africa
Sunday we worked for a few hours in the morning because our deliverable to the GAP office was due today. By the afternoon we felt ready for a break, so most of us went to the National Museum of Ethiopia, where the fossils of Lucy and other early hominds are kept.
Activities: Historic Sites, GAP Program, Activities: Travel, Activities: Food, Activities: Landmarks, Africa
Tuesday May 13th
When the location for GAP clients was announced, I didn’t hesitate to sign up for Ethiopia. There was no thought, no contemplation, and no matrices of pros or cons. I simply used my gut and cashed in all my chips so I could work in Africa because I knew it would be an adventure.
Activities: Historic Sites, GAP Program, Activities: Culture, Activities: Travel, Activities: Food, Activities: Landmarks, Africa
Friday May 9th
Today was a holiday, the first of the ninth month in the Ethiopian calendar, the feast of Saint Mary. Ethiopians use the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian (which Americans and Europeans, etc use), and their current year is 2006. Their time follows the traditional Middle Eastern 12-hour clock, in which the start of the day begins at 6am, which they call 12.