My experiences: One month in Africa...

Trip Description:
Annually, students and faculty from Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions travel to Ethiopia on an intercultural service learning immersion program. Students from the Doctor of Physical Therapy program do
a clinical rotation in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Following their clinical experience, they meet up with Nursing and Health Services Administration students. Once united, students have some focused time in Addis Ababa, where they tour healthcare facilities and meet with practitioners, scholars, and NGOs. These opportunities provide insight into the health care system, local health issues of great concern, and what is being done to address them. Students then travel to the rural area of Yetebon, Ethiopia. In Yetebon, the entire group engages in health related and general community service projects with a nonprofit partner, Project Mercy.

Map of Ethiopia

Map of Ethiopia
We will be in Addis Ababa and Yetebon (not shown on map)

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Shiro!


Shiro tegabino is my favorite food here. It's pretty simple - a sauce-like mixture of water and spices and you eat it with injera. It's bubbling in a little pot when they bring it out to you at restaurants which makes it even more exciting.

Really, the only thing I haven't liked so far was kitfo, a mixture of raw meat that we had on Easter. It tasted okay but I couldn't wrap my head around the idea of eating something that raw.

Injera (the pancake-like white thing in the picture) has definitely grown on me - it's really sour, may be an acquired taste at first, but I've started to have these intense cravings for it lately, even though we are eating it all the time! It's made out of teff which is this really tiny grain that is one of Ethiopia's main crops.

Good thing Denver has a lot of Ethiopian restaurants...

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