Dear
Mom, I actually did not jump the fence to touch a lion that was an April Fool’s
day joke. Love, Julia.
Julia
and I woke up this morning on time!!! We set out with our lady friends plus
Matt to go shopping… we were all sooo stoked. It was a little bit of a bumpy ride
and Florrie especially loved it. Matt helped us with the haggling of the store
venders while we bought some great authentic items at Posta Bete. Florrie got a
lovely traditional gown while the rest of us bought Ethiopian t-shirts and
bracelets. Needless to say, we were tossing Birr out left and right.
After
our early morning of shopping, we headed to serve lunch at the soup kitchen
known as Hope Enterprises. There we met Pastor Matthews who assigned us our
jobs for the afternoon. Julia and I got the job of folding injera which is our
favorite thing to eat in Ethiopia (not) while Erin and Yeon Mi got to go
personally serve soup and they made many new friends. Florrie and Mr. and Mrs.
Turlington took tickets and passed out the injera. We served 1000 people and it
was super rewarding.
Afterwards,
we made our way to the Lime Tree where all we wanted was dessert, but it was
unfortunately not offered. Julia and I both ordered burgers, but when we received
them they were covered in mayonnaise which just doesn’t seem right. The Lime
Tree was filled with firengees (foreigners) which was an unusual sight to see
them all in one area. Also Florrie walked in on a man in the bathroom and said,
“Oh hi….sorry”.
After
lunch, we went to Berhan Yehun meaning Let There Be Light and it was an after
school program for kids in a dump area. We watched a really sad, short film that
Julia managed to sleep through. She is actually horrible. (Julia says: In my
defense, we were sitting in a dark room. It was raining and we were watching a
movie… and Yeon Mi fell asleep, too.) We later got to meet the kids in the
program and had a great awkward time passing out t-shirts and pencils. The rain
eventually stopped and we got to go outside and play with some bubbles. We immediately
made friends and were swarmed by a bunch of kids that wanted to play with us. Other
than our great personalities they especially loved our blonde hair and light
skin. We got our hair braided and we both got boyfriends! Mine was 10 years old
and his name was Bimero. He even took me aside to tell me that he loves me. Wow,
first date and he already used the L word, big step. One day, he wants to be a
doctor or a pilot and he will fly to America to be with me. Julia’s boyfriend
gave her a lovely blue ring out of nowhere and would hold her hand while taking
her places. The kids loved to take pictures with our cameras so we just let
them go wild. Eventually it was time to go and we were sad to leave our new
friends at Berhan Yehun.
We
arrived to the house and had Lebanese food with french fries for dinner. After dinner,
we got a special treat of finally being able to dance! Our neighbor, Ashenafi,
came over with one of his friends to teach us and they showed us traditional
Ethiopian dances like Amhara and Garuge. A lot of awk twitching was involved
and kinda made us look like chickens, but I liked it. Since they showed us some
traditional dances, we all thought it would be a great idea to show them some American
classics like the “Wobble” and the “John Wall”. After a lot of crazy dancing, the
goobers went to bed, but the coolest of cool stayed up to dance more, even with
our guard Telahoun outside. Things got a little crazy and photos are to be
expected later on facebook so keep an eye out!
Sad
it’s our last day tomorrow, but can’t wait to each chickfila. Peace, luv,
Africa. Deuces. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox -
Aubrey
and Julia, ‘13
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