Back to Gonder

4th September 2008

Back to Gonder. So good to get back to my little home.

The garden is totally overgrown – huge grasses and flowers reaching up to waist height. The area outside the garden is the same – totally transformed from the time I first arrived in February.

The police/military compound has also changed. I was challenged as I tried to reach my house by the normal route and a makeshift fence has been put across the pathway. Now I will have an extra 10 minutes to my walk each day.

Mekdes very happy to see me, lots of hugs and kisses and then both of us not quite knowing what to do next. She returned to her cooking; Shiro and a potato and cabbage dish served with injeera mmmmmmmmm my favourite!!!!

I began the unpacking; sorting through to see what I had remembered and what left behind. Eventually found the ‘phone’ I’d bought for Mekdes – a cheapie £14 type.

Mekdes was very happy and then showed me what she’d been up to with my old phone: downloaded music and new pictures. Decided in the end to let her have the old phone and I took the new one. My one is not so good, it doesn’t have half the features but I never use them anyway.

Text messages welcoming me home from Karlijn and Nicholas. Alaseb came round after work. So I felt very much welcomed home.

Great to finally unpack and put everything away. Looking forward to my bed.