Day 2

We finally landed in Ethiopia about 830am (1am eastern time) went through customs and got our visas. By the time we went though everything we needed to get through to get to our driver and finally head to where we were staying, it was already about 1030am

The place we are staying is in Addis Ababa, in a guest house. There are three different rooms and me and a girl named Christy got lucky and got the room with two beds.... instead of like the others where they are packed with bunk beds. The two guys on our trip (Steve and Michael) sleep outside of the house in a little hut out there. I kinda felt bad for them... Another perk was we had our own bathroom with our room, which I later learned was not so much a perk. That will be explained later...

After we settled in for a bit we went to the internet cafe to write home to let everyone know we made it safe and sound. Then we all went to get lunch. We had pizza at this little restaurant near by. By this time I think I had been up for three days not including the sleep I got on the plane, but that doesn't really count because they were short naps. After lunch we went ahead and jumped into things and went to little Ahope. It was just an introduction to the school basically. The man who introduced us to the school and showed us all around talked for a long time to all of us in his little office.... I felt a little bad because we were all so tired that it was almost impossible to keep our eyes open. It was way past the point where we could pretend to be fine and act like we weren't about to pass out.

Once, we were done hearing his whole talk about the organization he showed us around the school and where all the children sleep. None of the Children were there while we were there except the 2 year olds and under. We stopped in and played with them some. They were so cute! A lot of them were fascinated with our water bottles, screwing the lids on and off and eventually guzzling the water out of them. Haha.... it was funny to watch them. But then again it was probably sad because they are too little to say when they are thirsty... and I think i heard them say they really don't get a chance to get much water. One of the toddlers just came to me and plopped down in my lap.

I think that time with those babies was the only time that I didn't notice how tired I was. When we were done there we hopped back on the bus to head back to our guest house and had a meeting and also later the founder of Mocha Club came by to talk to us. He and His wife are here because they are in the process of adopting a second child from here, and also for work with the new addition to Mocha club called Fashionable.

We were going to all go out and get dinner but we were all too tired and decided to skip it and head straight to bed.