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Awash National Park

5 May, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

As Bingham was closed for a few days over this weekend, Brian and I decided to take a trip, down country. On Thursday morning, we got on a bus heading east, and headed for Awash town, in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The 250km bus trip cost £1.50. Riding the public buses in Ethiopia is quite an experience. The buses are always crammed full of people, to ensure that the owner makes the most money possible. They are extremely hot and Ethiopian locals will not open the windows as they are afraid th...

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Ethiopian Easter

1 May, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

One of the pastors in a church here once said that one of the great things about Ethiopia, aside from the weather, is that you get to celebrate all major holidays twice. Christmas, New Year and Easter are all celebrated by Ethiopians at a slightly different time of the year from the rest of the world. This is because they use a different calendar from the rest of the world; Ethiopia is currently in the year 2000 at the moment. So Forengis celebrate Easter along with the rest of the world, and th...

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First experience of Ethiopian healthcare

25 April, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

The rains have still not come; we are continuing to pray here for that. The power cuts continue as usual, though the days that the power is out is never usual. Fortunately, so far the water has not been turned off. It’s possible to survive without power, but once the water stops coming out of the tap, it gets frustrating.This week, my football team played their last game, which unfortunately they lost. It was a very important game too; we needed to win it to get through. This meant we ended up...

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Street Ministry Retreat

17 April, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

Apologies once again for the length of time that it has been since my last post. The rains that I talked about in my last post lasted for only 3 days or so, nowhere near enough to solve all of the countries problems. Due to the fact that most of Ethiopia’s power generation is water reliant, the Ethiopian power Company is rather short these days. Thus, the number of days without power is increasing every week. Last week we had two separate 24hour periods without power, this week it is set to be...

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Rain has come...

8 April, 2008 | 0 COMMENTS

So we found out the problems with our dodgy internet, Brian realised that he had forgotten to pay the phone bill, which then meant that they turned off our phone line. Bill paying in Ethiopia is a very different process to that in the west, there is no post delivered to houses so you do not receive a bill in the post. It is your responsibility to go to the appropriate office in the city, depending on which bill it is you want to pay; water, electricity, phone etc. Usually you are greeted with ab...

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