Settling down: New House, New Friends, New lifestyle

Hi everyone. Fist week of work, way intensive but nice. I was assigned for two majors:

1) 2007 Training workshop on methods for HIV and Aids Estimates and Projection in cooperation with HAPCO (Hiv/Aids prevention and control Office) to work on the implementation of the M&E system in Ethiopia

2) Five year evaluation of the Global Fund impact on three major diseas: TB, Malaria and AIDS.

Very hard issues, but step by stepo i'm going trough them and they are not ununderstandable.

I have to go almost every day to the Ministry of Health, 5 minutes far from here , and always with a UN official driver... and that is so cool! All the kids say Hi to me, people see the UN car and they stop moving, trying to see if one big boss is in.. But it's just me!

Amharic lessons with Abraham are going quite well, and we establish a rule called ''a word a day'': heb teaches me one word of Amharic, i teach him one word in Italian. I wonder how long it will last to learn a language... but I might hire an official teacher to learn seriously, and faster.

Other than that we finally settled down. The new house is amazing, a huge villa with a nice garden, satellite tv (rai international = serie A every sunday for free!!!!!!!!!!), big living room, confortable beds, new fridge, a guard 24/7, a maid that washes & cleans 3 days a week.... this is life! We even met lots of people: 2 french guys working here, many ethiopians, and the Irish roomate just came yesterday. Everything all right, I even recovered myself after the terrible first week.

That's all folks, new updates coming soon