Houses- all different kinds.

Below is the house that I stayed in while I was in Langano. I hesitate to show it because it makes it look much less rustic than it is. There was indoor plumbing, but no electricity except for 2 hours a night from a generator.


This is the Health Clinic at the Langano missionary station. I worked there several days of my trip delivering babies, performing surgery......WAIT that's a lie. Since I have no medical training I just weighed babies and handed out nutrition stuff.

This is a hospital in a nearby town. While we were there getting medicine this donkey drawn carriage pulled up with a group of wailing Ethiopians and a mother and son. The son had malaria and looked half dead, but later we passed them on the road and the son was sitting up and looked fine. Ethiopians can be a little dramatic with medical stuff.

This was maybe the worst experience of the trip for me (other than getting sick). This is a public bathroom.....a wooden shack with a tiny hole in the ground. A tiny hole that you have to hover over. It is one of those moments in life that it would really pay to be a man. I have smelled few things more foul than this.

In Ethiopia (in the bush) this would be considered a nice house. It actually looks like a house not a hut and it has a metal corrugated roof and windows.

This is the "Container Bridge." It is the point that separates the villages from the missionary compound. It is a shipping container they turned into a bridge.

This is the church on the missionary compound. It was definitely an interesting Sunday. A lady with a guitar and a guy singing worship in their language and a guest speaker who spoke vigorously for about an hour with a translator (not translated into English mind you). It was neat to see, but I am not sure how I would feel about doing church their every week.....you would literally have NO IDEA what was being sung or spoken.

This is the typical house in the bush...a hut. The outside is mud and sticks and the roof is made of sticks and straw. Crazy!!

Ethiopia is about 50% Christian and 50% Muslim. It is a very strategic country for the Muslim world and they are evangelizing like crazy. There are Muslim mosques everywhere. This mosque below is in the middle of the bush. It is the strangest thing to see a beautiful building like this in the middle of an area where people live in huts.

This is the school building out in Dawe. The kids sit on logs while they learn and yet they are more eager to learn than almost every American student I have ever met.

Strawberry stand where you can buy fresh strawberries on the side of the road.

This is a house up on stilts on the drive from the city to Langano. Pretty crazy.