Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Difficult Choices


Life in Gambella town for a foreigner is full of difficult choices. For example, what would you do if your randomly assigned hotel room turns out to be the “presidential suite” at the "nicest" hotel in Gambella? The quick response is, take it! But the real response is much more difficult. While it is the only room with A/C and a nice flat screen TV, is it really worth it when a swarm of about 2,000 bees decides that is where they want to hang out as well? Once you wait out the bees, grasshoppers, flies, mosquitos, ants, and cockroaches then you have to decide if it is worth having A/C despite the smell of a full septic tank gravitating from the bathroom? The answer for me was yes and yes. Gambella is just way too hot and humid to pass up an opportunity to have A/C. Now if the power would just stay on so I could use it… 

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