One year!!!

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Hi, it is the 6. of September and that means I did fly out exactly a year ago.

That was my plane: 21.20 to Addis Ababa

So many things have happened since then. Good things and bad things:
Ups:
- meeting amazing people
- making good new friends
- working in a really rewarding job
- making all sorts of contacts with other NGOs, Unicef, etc....
- getting an understanding for sustainable development work
- running work shops
- working alongside teachers
- having fun lessons with the children
- riding on a motor bike taxi on the shittiest dirt roads in the middle of absolutely nowhere
- shopping on a market
- travelling Rwanda and Uganda
- learning from a nation that has gone through a Genocide
- seeing an incredibe beautiful country
- and so many more

and downs:
- being covered in rat poo and pee after trying to wash the draws where she lived in....thanks to
the water pressure everything splashed up on me
- having the biggest spider ever next to me, yes it had huge jaws and had legs like baby fingers
- experiencing an earth quake (5.2 on scale with its Epi Centre in the Kivu area)
- having flees and bedbugs and being bitten as there would not be a tomorrow
- having a broken door for 2 month and therefore having no door for two month
- having an invasion of about 100 bees (just yesterday)
- needing to fly home with a bad Kidney infection
- being hassled
- being mugged twice
- and.......a few other things

All of us are asking the same questions: Where has the year gone?????
This year has been incredible good, challenging, hard, amazing, bad, great, fascinating, rediculous, cool, sad, brilliant,..... and fast.
I am looking forward to hopefully doing my Masters in 'Development' in London from September next year on. I will see.
Take care,
xxx Tina