Zach

This weekend I visited fellow Peace Corps Volunteer - Zach - at his site! He's an agriculture volunteer in the Sidama Zone. We visited with the Kenyan Catholic Franciscan sisters near his site and ate a delicious Kenyan lunch. Then we did a home visit and he taught about planting seeds from tomatoes.

Did some face painting today. We had fun!

This week's produce from Hawassa!

song parody

Inspired by The Doors and Hawassa:

Hello, I love you -
And where are you go?

Hello, I love you -
Amarinya you know?

Children making cat noises at me.
Children saying "Money! Money! Money!"

Adults saying "Are you fine?"
Asking for a piece of my time.

Men peeing out in the open -
With you I won't be elopin'

Hello! You you! Hello! You you!

You you!!!

Meseret and Ayinalem graduation

Congratulations to Meseret and Ayinalem who graduated from the Peace Corps Ethiopia Household Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Nutrition program! They both did a lot of work in this program, including growing thriving vegetable gardens! Today, with HEW Tigist, they taught their friends about complementary feeding, exclusive breast feeding before 6 months, hand-washing and latrines.

Shito graduation

Congratulations to Shito, who finished the Peace Corps Ethiopia Household Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Nutrition Program! Shito, Health Extension Worker Safaye and I have been working together since March. Shito accomplished many things during the program, including building a hand washing station and learning about the oral-fecal cycle. Today she taught several of her friends about latrine maintenance and trachoma prevention and treatment.

water fashion

These are girls who sometimes fetch water with me wearing my and a friend's sun glasses.