things I will not miss about living in Addis

There are of course some things that I will not miss about living in Addis:

• washing all our clothes by hand
• the lack of reliable electricity
• bleaching all our fruit and vegetables
• the taste of the drinking water
• the smog
• so many potholes in the road
• the smell of fruit street
• the breakfast cereals we have here
• the smell of open drains
• whatever insect it is that bites us while in bed
• not being able to drink tap water
• seeing real poverty and not knowing what to do about it