Wednesday, September 5, 2012

A Time of Transition


Dehana Dikum?!?

So it’s been a slow past couple of weeks. A lot has happened to be honest, but I’ve just been lazy in trying to keep my blog up to date. I’ve been lazy with a lot of things lately. I should work on that…

At any rate, the saddest news out of Ethiopia right now was the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi a couple weeks ago. The news left us all here in shock: I don’t think a single person in this expected this to happen, Ethiopians and foreigners alike. It’s been a terribly sad time for us all here. Meles was a great leader who did a lot for his country, and we were all sad to see him go. It seems the entire country has been in mourning the past few weeks, and people are only just now beginning to recover from their loss. The good things Meles did for this country will forever be remembered by the people who loved him. Ethiopians are a great and determined people, however, and, while this was a great loss, will continue to strive to become a country of excellence even as they did under their leader. RIP Meles.

There was one more, smaller good-bye this week in the form of the VSO volunteer Mike. Michael Bobei was a VSO volunteer in this town for 3 years, and this week he finally put the finishing touches on his project and left Maychew. He’s spent the past few years building a state of the art network for the technical college he worked at, and now Maychew technical college is the first college (outside of universities) to have a campus wide network in all of Tigray. It’s a huge accomplishment, and Mike deserves major props for all the difficulties he had to go through to get it done. Very few volunteers get such a massive project done before they finish their service, and Mike will forever go in the hall of fame for his sacrifice. Maychew will miss you Mike! Come back soon!

Other than that, I’ve just been hangin out in Maychew for the most part. School will start soon, so one of my good friends Inge and I have been working hard to put together an “Environmental Club Manual” that has activities, information, and advice for running environmental clubs in Ethiopia. The manual is well underway, and we hope to have it finished in the next month or so. In addition, my good friend Getachew came back to visit!!! I missed him a lot, and it was really nice to get to see and hang out with him for a while again.

That’s about all the exciting things that have happened recently. I recently decided to rejoin twitter as well, so look me up there @nardosmalls too! I know this blog was a bit short and somber, but the next blog post will be pretty entertaining (hopefully), so stay tuned!

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