just a quick note

I don't really have a whole lot to update on. But I have a few extra minutes today, so I thought I'd send something.

 

I have mostly been thinking about what it will be like coming back to America. I know I keep saying this, but it's going to be really difficult. I keep thinking about how much I wish I could just stay here. I know that I need to come back and continue working to pay off my loans, to become ESL certified and do some other preperations for moving here. But, especially these last few days, I have been able to envision what living here would be like - and I don't want to give it up. It's really hard for me to be able to see this, to have it within my reach - but to have to put it on hold for another year. I guess a year isn't so long and I'm sure it will be over before I know it...

 

It's still been raining a lot here. Everyday for the last week or so we have gotten rain, and not just a little bit, but a lot. Last night there was some minor flooding on the roads. Even as I am typing this it has just started raining. Most people would assume that the rain is a good thing, and maybe in a way it is. Though it may start to cause some problems for the crops. The wheat and teff grains should be drying out now, but if they continue to get wet the crops might be ruined. People here are starting to get worried about that. Those two grans are used almost every day for Ethiopians - so if there is a shortage it might be a problem. We will see what happens.

 

Tomorrow I will go to Sendafa in the morning. It will be my last time there on this trip. Luckily it seems as if I will have quite a bit of time to walk around and possibly even visit some old friends there. In the evening I invited all my friends here out to dinner. We are going to go to Karamara, which is a cultural Ethiopian restaurant. I took them all there last year and it was a really nice time.

 

Well, it's about time for lunch so I should get going.

Hope all is well back in America and nobody is getting too stressed about the election...