The Hash: Part II


This Saturday's hash was one of the best I've been on. Three of my friends who don't usually join us (Diane, Genet, and Soe) came along. And we had a great array of food, including brownies, cookies, and Pringles. Since Eritreans don't really snack, I've noticed that I miss American snack foods more than anything else.

A young engineer from San Francisco, who on Saturday had only been in Eritrea for four days, also joined us. He is apparently consulting for some branch of the Eritrean government, helping to develop better mogogos (Eritrean stoves used to make injera, a flat bread I will discuss in a future post). In Asmara, people have electric mogogos, but James will apparently be working in the villages to improve the efficiency of wood burning mogogos. It seems like the strangest possible project for an American engineer, because what American has ever seen a mogogo before? Anyway, James is currently out in one of the villages by the coast learning all about them.



The highlight of this week's hash, however, was climbing to the top of the lone peak in the vast valley in which we were walking. It was really a pointless excercise, as the hill could have been easily avoided, but the view from the top was worth the climb. Here are Soe and Genet scaling the "mountain."