Africa!!

Greetings!!

This is going to be rather short, but I just wanted to let everyone know that I made to Addis without any glitches. I rolled into Addis at 8:45 pm local time and got through customs by 10 (about 2:00pm Minnesota time).  Unfortunately, the driver had been waiting there since 8:00, but it was a quick drive to my hosts’, Laura and Tim Love and their 2 year old son Sam. Tim finished his 2^nd year of general surgery residency at Emory and is now just wrapping up a year of research. He was not around when I showed up, but Laura was an excellent host and much to my sisters’ delight, fed me upwith some amazing chicken and rice soup the moment I came in the door.  As usual, I really wasn’t able to sleep much during the trip which ended up being about 30 hours total, so I basically collapsed and passed out for 11 hours as soon as I hit the hay. Hopefully I was able to reset my clock enough that the jet-lag will be fairly minimal.

A little humor awaited me this morning, but without a little explaining, only my family will understand it. My sister’s dog, Rufus, is living with my parents and is a little skittish; he pretty much watches my every move whenever I am home. Kind of like my supervisor. Evidently little Sam is kind of wary of strangers as well, and he stepped upto fill Rufus’ role beautifully. It really makes it feel like home J

In other news, we will be heading down to Soddo tomorrow morning at 8 with a larger group. Until then, I basically have free reign to run, check out Addis, and find an internet café to post this.

Until next time!!