A new volunteer arrives to work in January, which will be great to have some company and for the kids to have some more one-on-one teaching. Hopefully she isn't such a punish like the last one..
David had been at the home for 4 weeks before I arrived, we were supposed to overlap 1 month but it only ended up being 5 days, he had to fly home early as his wife was sick. But 5 days was more than I could handle, lets just say my goodbye at the airport was pretty enthusiastic.
He was 72 so there was obviously a large generation gap. He is African-American, so you'd think he was wouldn't be so prejudice. He would tell me about life about America when he was growing up and then straight after says things like "watch out for those Muslims, they don't like us Westerners." In fact, he took a round about and more expensive way to get to Ethiopia because he wouldn't fly to Dubai or any of "those Muslim places." Despite 30% of Ethiopia's population being Muslim.
He dropped some other shockers about asylum seekers, and starting making retching noises when I brought up the subject of homosexuality.
He wasn't particularly warm to the children either. I later discovered his reason for coming to Ethiopia was to check it out as a possible place to live, as his pension would stretch 3 times as far here.
Fingers crossed the next volunteer has a little more in common with me!
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