the view by joelle

hello again!

today we went on a "journey"

we went up a mountain and looked at some old churches, i think they were catholic churches. there was a museum too and we got to look at some Ethiopian history. 

we saw many women going down the mountain carrying (apparently 3 times their weight) of eucalyptus leaves and branches. it looked like hard work! we saw donkeys carrying it too. 

we went to the market, and bought a few little things. EVERYBODY was like, "buy this buy this!"

we also went to a restaurant! the food tasted NORMAL i was so happy. i had lasagna and orange juice  then we went to a museum right across the road from the restaurant . have you guys ever heard of Lucy? well, she is supposedly the oldest human skeleton ever found. she was found in Ethiopia. But right now, she is on "tour" in Texas, so we only got to see the replica, but it was still cool. 

yesterday was fun. there are a group of 5 or 6 children that live beside our guest house in little shacks with roofs of tin. they came out, and i had pumped up a soccer ball the day before, so Hannah brought it out and they started playing. they were having so much fun. so i brought out my camera, and was taking a few pictures, and they kept saying, "photo! photo" and posing for the camera. so i took so many pictures of them. there is (i'm just typing the names as they pronounced them to me) Solana, a young girl 6 or 7, who spoke pretty good English, when we said words to her, Regeeke, a girl 12 years old, who LOVES Hannah or "Hana" the way she pronounces it, Mickey, 5 or 6 years old, who is Regeeke's younger brother. he loves funny faces on the camera, Salam, a young girl who is 9, and Fer- something, a 12 year old boy who is really good at soccer tricks and doing the soccer tricks with flips and stuff. he is Solana's brother. 

so, yesterday, we were talking to them and playing with them. Hannah had 3 hair bands on her wrist, and Regeeke, Salam, and Solana saw them on her wrist and were looking at them. Hannah gave them one, and they were so excited, talking about them in Amharic and admiring them. it was so cute. today, we are gonna bring out a pack of 18 silly bands, if they're there of course. i think they will love them.

then i was showing them the pictures on my camera, and they were looking at the pictures of Niagara Falls, and i told them "this is Canada" and they thought it was so beautiful. they were laughing at the pictures of Whitney's funny pictures (sorry whit ) and other pictures too. they kept saying "wow" at all the pictures. then we had to go because it was dark. 

tomorrow's the court date, so we'll see how that goes.

talk to you soon!

Joelle :)