Andrea and our Hotel

Today I finally met Andrea!

As I mentioned in the initial post I didn't really have a plan for my time in Ethiopia.  I'd done some digging around on the internet and found a blog by Andrea and Jeremy who were doing some mission work in Bahir Dar, but the story ended in 2016.  Would they still be there?  I finally decided to try to e-mail and the response was '"call me when you get here". So I did and here we are.

Andrea is running a program for street boys to help them get off the street.  The program includes a Bible lesson, sports, Amharic, Math and English classes, life-skills and a meal.  The more hands on deck, the better so I got plugged in to help right away.  I spent some time teaching the English alphabet to one of the boys. When he couldn't process any more, I asked him to teach me the Amharic numbers.  Let's see.... aund, oolet, sost.... 

Our hotel room in the BenMas Hotel is a comfortable room on the fourth floor, facing away from the street noise. That being said, we still haven't been able to sleep too well for night noises and jet-lag. Hopefully that will change soon.

View of Bahir Dar from our balcony

Another view from our room.

Every yard has a fence and gate.  

The restaurant on site offers Ethiopian specialties which all include injera (a flat bread made of teff and water) and usually have the word spicy or hot sauce in the description.  They have other dishes like chicken fingers, fried fish, pizza, pasta, burgers, but with an Ethiopian twist! So far our stomachs agree with the food.