June 18, 2007
Leaving
I can't think of a slick way to start this one. So I will just say that after two years, nine months and several days, we are leaving Ethiopia and moving to Sudan.
Amber has become the BBC correspondent in Khartoum and I will be working for Reuters.
I have still got a few days left and some more blog posts to come. But I thought I would start these lists and build on them for the rest of the week. All suggestions welcome.
Things I will not miss about Ethiopia
In no particular order
- 'Abet, Abet?' or 'Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh?'
- Men in uniform with sticks and guns, especially when they are using those sticks and guns
- Men and women sitting behind desks with rubber stamps, especially when they are refusing to use those rubber stamps until you have given them photocopies of pages 4,7 and 11 of your passport together with three photos, your marriage license and your mother's birth certificate
- All drivers - especially of Isuzus
- All pedestrians
- The morgue at the Black Lion hospital
- Urael - the road junction not the blog, naturally
- SAM, MAM and GAM
- AWD (really C)
- Month three of the rainy season
- About 10% of the people who leave comments on this blog
- Fereng true believers and LF groupies
- Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation and all its works
- UPDATE: On-street elephantiasis, leprosy and other Old Testament favourites
Things I will miss about Ethiopia
In no particular order
- Everything and everyone else
Posted by aheavens at June 18, 2007 8:32 PM