Thomas Tiedeman is program manager of the technical assistance unit for the European Commission civil society fund in Ethiopia. A complicated title? Yes, but development cooperation is also a complicated business, says Thomas, who comes from Germany. I met him in his office in Addis Ababa where he told me about the administrative side of development.

At the Goethe-Institute in Addis Ababa I met Abenazer, who is currently studying German. He told me why and then he went on to the so-called “DW Point”, where students can check out multimedia content in German and 29 other languages at dw.de. Do you also want to learn German? Have a look at DW’s language courses and join the Facebook-community of more than 80.000 German-learners!

Mikyes is in grade eight at the German Church School in Addis Ababa. He told me what’s so special about this school that is mainly financed by donations and provides a meal per day and quality education to kids from poor families as well. Mikyes’ dream: to study law and become a business lawyer.

Takaling, Ermias, Ngusse and Zmadkun have been walking uphill for an hour to enjoy the view on their city. After posing with DW’s new logo, they took a cab to get back again. You can’t see much of the big town that lies below these mountains. But can you guess where we are?

I am back to the countryside again after enjoying city-life in Bahir Dar. Farmers are currently bringing in the teff, the traditional Ethiopian grain, as well as coffee beans. Have a look!