A lazy and decadent weekend. Saturday consisted of chips by the lake at Wabe Shebele No. 2 ( a government-owned hotel) with Margaret and a evening at home. Apparently yesterdays incident at the PIN school resulted in the police shooting dead two children. They had apparently sneaked into the school dressed as pupils and started protesting. Needless to say, PIN will be taking this further. If the police want to avoid trouble then shooting people in a school run by a European NGO is not clever.

Today has consisted of an early morning run, juice at Pinna Café and cooking veggie curry. All this must give a strange impression of living in Ethiopia! VSO told me yesterday that it is likely I’ll end up working at Gill’s college soon (good) and we are also on Yellow Alert, following yesterdays shootings. Yellow Alert means not going out after dark, staying away from large public gatherings and keeping our eyes & ears open. There’s absolutely no hint of any trouble in Awassa itself, but I suppose it’s better to be cautious.