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New Year’s in Ethiopia

17 September, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

Thursday 11th September is New Year’s Day in the Ethiopian calendar and so on Wednesday night we had a New Year’s Eve party. We invited all our Ethiopian staff, guards and house worker, as well as some other forengii friends. Brian bought some wood to have a bonfire, and we decided to buy some fireworks to celebrate. Fireworks in Ethiopia are in short supply, but we managed to find some in a local supermarket, and spent about £10 buying a few roman candles and other dodgy looking tubes fill...

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Exploring Ethiopia…

7 September, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

Another week gone here, the rain continues to fall steadily which is good. I’m continuing to settle into my new role here at the school, I’m enjoying having a schedule that doesn’t revolve around teaching. There is plenty of work that needs done so I’m kept busy without the pressure of preparing for classes on top of that.On Wednesday night we had a meeting to discuss the upcoming year for street ministry. Most of those involved in it last year will be coming back and hopefully some new ...

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1st week over.

30 August, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

The first week of school is now over, all the new teachers are settling in well as far as I can tell. I’m starting to get the hang of the elementary IT teaching, it is a lot different from the high schoolers, as you would imagine. I will be teaching only two classes a week, sitting in as an assistant on a further 5. I’m very glad of this lighter load, for one thing I don’t enjoy teaching the younger kids as much, and there will be a lot of IT tasks that need done this year so it will be gr...

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Back to “routine”…

25 August, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

So I have left crazy flooded Ireland and I’m back in Addis Ababa! Have been back nearly a week now and not much is different from the city I left 2 months ago. The power cuts have finished thankfully, though our water has been cut off for about a week now, due to pipe work. Our tanks are beginning to run out so hopefully we will have it restored soon. The Church next door to us seems to be in the middle of a festival so every night since I got here they have been blasting out horrible noise fr...

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Back to Ethiopia, for one day

29 June, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

So I’m back here in Ethiopia, having arrived safely from South Africa. I spend today here and then fly home on Monday morning; I think it’s at 4am. Nasty.Our second week in South Africa was much more enjoyable than the first. Mainly because the weather finally picked up and we were able to do some more touristy things. On Monday, we visited Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. We saw his cell and those of the other prisoners who were there. We were given a tour of the island b...

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