1: The mountains we see from our path to school on a beautiful morning. The buildings in the foreground are parts of Jimma University














2: All the students wear uniforms and all the teachers wear these white gowns. We asked why and apparently it is to protect the teachers’ valuable clothes from being covered in dust from the chalks. Another teacher said “it makes us look like professors at university” – we believe in the second one.



















3: We were invited to make Doro Wot (Ethiopian chicken stew)at one of the teachers’ house. It of course included grabbing two chickens from the backyard cutting their throat and cutting it in to pieces. It is the women’s chore, so the man in the house and Aske just watched patiently.














4: We have to spend a lot of time correcting those Weekend Diaries, so to make it as pleasurable as possible we went to a nice restaurant on our way home. The “St. George Beer” is actually not bad.



















5: As Maria wrote some time ago, passing the grade 1 and grade 2 classrooms can be very difficult in the breaks because of all these lovely, little fellows who want to show their affection to us by various means.



















6: It is easier on the way home, where there are just a couple of students who occasionally want to talk to us. Here we gathered some of them for a pose with Aske.