And I don't even like coffee.....

Sunday we were the guests of George and Mary Huttar (furthest right in the above photo). Both are on the faculty at NEGST and are alumni of Wheaton College. George told of his recollections of going on SMP during the summer of 1961 to Ecuador and how he loves to tell his students that he started studying Greek in 1958. He says that shocks them as many of their parents were not yet born.
After the baptism service we returned to NEGST to pick up Margaret Sim, who, with her husband Ronnie, also teach here. After retrieving her we went to Habesha, an Ethiopian restaurant about 25 minutes away (it is not very far from NEGST it is just that the roads are so bad that it takes longer to get from here to there). Habesha is in it own compound with a security guard at the gate. Everything to make a Westerner feel safe (p.s. as I write this I just finished reading through an alert email sent by the Embassy here in Nairobi--basically the same message--pay attention, there are people that don't like us).
The food was absolutely wonderful. There were five of us and including beverages the cost was about $15 USD. This was the best Ethiopian food I've ever had (third time having had it). You eat with your hands tearing off pieces of a soft spongy sour bread, called injera (it was not as sour as I've had before, thus it was better). You take the bread and wrap it around whatever is on the plate--lentils, potatoes, goat, etc. Again, it was wonderful.
The end of the meal was capped of with Ethiopian coffee, which was very very good. It is not bitter like our coffee. The full coffee service includes a little charcoal "habachi" whereon pieces of incense-coated resin are placed. The resin melts creating a large waft of fragrant smoke. I'm going to do what I can to go back before I leave.