Funny, but the one piece of news that actually made it all the way to the extreem south of Ethiopia was that Micael Jackson was dead.  A boy who looked like he was about 9 who was wearing the typical Ethiopia uniform of torn clothes and no shoes came running up to us and said “Micael Jackson was my friend” Then he said something about being dead that we did not completely understand.   We then heard on one of our rare phone calls to home that he was in fact really dead.   Not that it matters much for the purpose of this blog post but what I am saying is that its really strange, I mean really really strange to be so disconected from the world.   I am used to getting somewhere between 100 and 150 emails a day and sending about 40 or 50.  But since we got here excluding the past few days where I have been going like mad answering everyone I have only been able to send 2 emails and I was able to check my email 3 times.   There are truly places left in the world where news just does not get to.  Like when we left all over the news was Swine Flu this and Swine Flu that….  that reminds me I am going to go over to Google and see what ever happend with all that….     Ok it appears its not all over but its not the only thing in the news any more either.

Any way.   Just wanted to say that its still a shock being somewhere so remote and removed from the world.

Levi