Our final 4 days in Adama were uneventful. Except for the bought of food poisoning I had Sunday evening. Thank goodness it held off until we reached the hotel! Thankfully it was relatively minor and only lasted through the wee hours of Monday morning.
We finished up our last 4 days in Adama by holding another Specimen Referral Training for a new set of participants. Monday morning was a bit nerve wracking as the training was scheduled to begin at 8:30 and by 9:15, none of the participants had shown up. Apparently, the invitation told the participants to go to a different location for the training, so we just needed to wait a little bit until they traveled over to where we were. Within 30 minutes, there were about 35 participants, and several more showed up the next day to bring our total attendance to 42.
Mestawet and Habtamu (2 participants from the 1st week of training) were responsible for the training this time. Joan and I were just there to assist. It made it a little difficult though since they were mainly teaching in Amharic. They did a fabulous job though, and it was a really good feeling to see how much they had learned from us...and how eager they were to pass that knowledge on to the new batch of participants.
On Thursday afternoon, after wrapping up class we hopped in the car and headed to Addis. We would spend Thursday night and Friday in Addis Ababa, and then would be saying goodbye to this beautiful country on Saturday. It was hard to believe our journey was coming to an end already.
We finished up our last 4 days in Adama by holding another Specimen Referral Training for a new set of participants. Monday morning was a bit nerve wracking as the training was scheduled to begin at 8:30 and by 9:15, none of the participants had shown up. Apparently, the invitation told the participants to go to a different location for the training, so we just needed to wait a little bit until they traveled over to where we were. Within 30 minutes, there were about 35 participants, and several more showed up the next day to bring our total attendance to 42.
Mestawet and Habtamu (2 participants from the 1st week of training) were responsible for the training this time. Joan and I were just there to assist. It made it a little difficult though since they were mainly teaching in Amharic. They did a fabulous job though, and it was a really good feeling to see how much they had learned from us...and how eager they were to pass that knowledge on to the new batch of participants.
On Thursday afternoon, after wrapping up class we hopped in the car and headed to Addis. We would spend Thursday night and Friday in Addis Ababa, and then would be saying goodbye to this beautiful country on Saturday. It was hard to believe our journey was coming to an end already.
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