This is where I am staying! Its a nice guest house. I have my own bathroom, hot water, breakfast, and really nice people. Also there is wi fi, that is fairly good, and according to Eric Kiechle this means I can send texts from here to anyone with an iphone. I was beginning to feel more like I was in Africa, with the smog and the hospital and all, until I got a text message from a friend in the US right after I turned my phone back on...



And this is Frank Addis where I had dinner-a guy in a shop told me about this restaurant the first day I was here and I finally made it tonight. I was shocked by the view-I guess I am higher up in the city than I thought. You can see the mountains in the background! The smog tends to dissipate later in the day, so it was quite lovely and the food was delicious. Also, after eating the food here a couple of times, I think I am impressed by the quality of Ethiopian food in DC. It tastes very similar.



I am slowly starting to understand the hospital-its literally "you get what you pay for"-everything has to be purchased by the patient or family before it can be given, including pain medicine for trauma patients. Some things are so similar to home though-the ED and the medicine teams disagree over who should get admitted, the surgery team is hesitant to take surgical patients from the anyone else, etc.