I am alive and well here in Addis Ababa. The computer service at our neighborhood hotel is very slow but I now have an operating cellphone, a set of new maps, and tomorrow a group of us are heading out to the village where I used to teach school.
Addis Ababa is ten times larger than when I was last here, now at 5 million, five times more populated than Maine! But many things remain the same. LOL
I can't seem to access my e-mail which is frustrating but it might work better from a different internet location.
We're living in a nice 4th floor apartment in the old airport sector of the city. It's one of the newer buildings but there are plenty of more older modest buildings around and feverish construction activity. The food is great!