we had no idea
germany was a hot tub compared to what we stepped into after we stepped off that plane…
i mean like. seriously. ok so today we all slept in. cause we were so exhausted well. okay lemme start over.
got into the ethiopian airport last night… starting walking out the doors and got stopped. they wanted to scan all of our baggage… our 3 carts full of baggage and equiptment… so we starting the scanning process… then they wanted to see all of our carnet stuff… so anyway – we stepped back and let carolyn do her thing… it turns out. ethiopia was not going to budge one inch. and we weren’t coming in with our equiptment. we needed to store it at the airport until we got a letter that documents that our government recognizes that we are not exporting this stuff… but just coming in to shoot a friendly documentary… and all this crazy confusing stuff. basically our dude at the ethiopian embassy told us way wrong info and we’re not shooting anything untill we get this letter to their people. so. we’re on hold until at LEAST monday.
please pray for this. they are holding our equiptment at the airport. and this is pretty sketchy. we’re all safe at our hotel. but please pray that on monday we will get our equipment and start shooting… its holding up our production schedule. and obviously. time is money. and production schedules are tight. but we are trusting in God. so today we got to rest and recooperate from germany, all day flights, culture shock… and all that stuff.
today after we all assembled (( sans carolyn )) around 2pm to have some ethiopean cusine here at the hotel we set out just to walk around addis. after stepping out of our hotel grounds — less than 15 seconds went by before we were bombarded with children. one came over to me, another to john david — one to drew and one to david. we walked and talked with them for a while. then a older (( 23-27 )) ethiopean dude came over to us and started hanging out with us… his name was david. he took us all around (( and all of our newly aquired children friends )) addis and we walked and talked and laughed and o man… it was crazy.
love,
andrw
