Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Bayoinet & Macchiatos

Well, if you were within earshot of Ethiopia this weekend, it will come to no surprise that Manchester City are the Premier League Champions. They sure do love their football, and it's always a joy to watch matches with such enthusiastic fans.
As Suzie said, we started to settle in this week. Much to our relief, the bathing situation has been figured out and we've got a lead on the laundry. Living here has been a real eye-opener as to my water consumption at home; Canada is truly lucky to have the fresh water resources that it does.
We delved deeper into some cultural experiences this week. The coffee ceremony was great fun (see Suzie's post) and we had our first Bayoinet (Injera served with potato, yellow rice, lentils, beetroot, or other sides). I'm not usually a coffee drinker but I've found the Macchiato (a delicious cup of layered coffee, milk, and sugarcane) to be quite addictive...okok  really addictive.
Things are starting to pick up work-wise, especially as JUCAVM prepares to host the International Conference of Post-Harvest Management & Technology for Food Security. It looks like it will busy days ahead so we'll enjoy our downtime for now. We're also preparing a tutorial on conversational English for the undergrads, and a special topic of our choice pertaining to our degree. I think we'll do some sessions on MS Word and Excel for the grad students sometime soon too.
That's all for now. Ciao!

Manny

Some delicious coffee from the ceremony


JUCAVM football match


Bayoinet





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