Wando Genet Sunset

A guard tower above the Wando Genet Forest. Notice the hole in the corner of the concrete slab we are on; there used to be railing around it but someone hiked into the forest and ripped it out, and drug it back down the hill.

Birdwatching

The biggest grasshopper I have ever seen

Three Colobus Monkeys sitting in a tree

Strange Ethiopian Architecture

Maribou Stork in Hawassa

Maribou Stork

Eating dinner by Lantern Light in our home, Alemgena. This was the second straight day of a power outage that covered much of the Bale Region of Ethiopia. We are cooking by kerosene stove now, but hope to get a propane tank soon.

Swearing-In at US Embassy

Jill becomes a volunteer (officially)

This should say "environment volunteer"

The 16 remaining environment volunteers from our group, the eighth of the modern peace corps stint in Ethiopia.

They've landed

Last Day of Language Class

Host family appreciation day ceremony in Asela

Doing laundry takes a long time

Gifts from our host family: tradition earrings and scarf

With my host sisiter, host dad Solomon, an his brother Gitau. Solomon does not know his exact age, which is common in Ethiopia due to a lack of birth certificates/records being kept.

Orthodox Christianity is very very prominate here.

My Birthday Party

Awash National Park

Land sailing

Ethiopian flag

Ostrich reading the daily bulletins.

Awash Falls, the second largest falls in Ethiopia

With our friend Matt

Bird Watching

Nile Crocodile. the largest one we saw.

Our Campsite guards

Hamadryas Baboon (I think) inspecting our campsite.

Garum, our most excitable tour guide

Can you find the Nile Crocodile on the rock?

Our first idyllic African sunset