Finally Pictures…..

Due to the super poor internet connection at work, and the super expensive semi fast internet connection at the Sheraton I was unable to post these earlier!!! So here you go, enjoy…….

Also, unfortunately due to the mega work-overload (everything seemed to be piling up for 6monhts waiting for me….) I was unable to take too many interesting pictures… but here are a few of the view from my balcony in the hotel and from my little walk in the Piazza… where I ventured to last Saturday… much to my colleagues surprise…. They were pretty shocked when I told them that I ventured out of the Hotel – Office, Office-Hotel route. It was not as bad as I expected… the Ethiopians are pretty friendly. As any other 3rd world country you find beggars on the street and little children pulling at you for money… The good thing though that there are police around, and if the children annoy you too much the police or even the passer bys shout at them to leave you alone. I obviously got many stares due to the fact that I was a foreigner, and the only white person walking in the streets. Though people were extremely friendly and whenever I looked lost – which was practically all the time - they were willing to help me in their very broken English. The taxi drivers – when they can speak English - are soooo friendly, in a non-sleazy way, which is quite comforting.
So here come the pictures:

The View from my Balcony of shacks, mountain, and sky scrapers

View outside the Sheraton, the Irony of the city is the Community of iron shacks in between the luxurious hotels and sky scrapers

Metal Shacks – Most of the Ethiopians are either rich Expats that live in nice villas outside the city or poor people that live in these houses

Next to the Piazza – Addis is soooo green and peaceful

Closer view

More of them between the Sheraton and the Hilton

The beautiful view of the mountains around Addis Ababa