Having managed to only visit Addis once since coming to Robe, three times in a month seems a little excessive! Once for a workshop, an unscheduled week due to illness, and a long-planned weekend to celebrate Mary and Grace’s birthdays. The first time, I managed to get a lift in a College car that was going anyway to the capital anyway. I had not been looking forward to the bus journey, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity. Having been told that we would leave early on Monday morning, it came as something of a shock to be phoned at 6.30 am on Saturday morning to be told by my line manager, Tesfaye, that we would be leaving on Sunday morning. More true to form, we did not leave early enough on Sunday and ended up
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