About the last thing we ever expected to do in Ethiopia was go bowling. But as it turned out, Addis has one bowling hall (all of Africa is said to have no more than about half a dozen), we had the evening free and so we went. Jordan hadn't been to this place for a long time, but the 3 staffers there remembered him clearly; he and one other person, they said, were the only two forenjis who had visited the place in the last five years who could speak fluent Amharic. Quite a testament to Jordan and I guess to the power of language. We turned out to be the only visitors there, having the whole hall for ourselves. It was a blast. The lanes are regular size, but different from what we're used to in America and Europe in this regard: the pin assembling is not automated; instead one of the staffers had to put the pins up by hand after each time we knocked them down. It was something to see. Louise ruled the night, putting her two male companies in their place with a jaw-dropping number of strikes. Watch this video clip of her showing how it's done!
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