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Monthly Archives: April 2014
One does not simply walk into Mordor
About two years ago I wrote a post with almost the same title. I wanted to use it again because this time there really WAS a volcano. After another early breakfast, we hung around while the local hires broke camp. … Continue reading
Sunset at the lake
Danakil day 2, afternoon The tour company advised us to bring a book and a diary for Saturday afternoon, when it would be too hot to go anywhere. The temperature reached 50 C, which is about 122F. Indeed, that is … Continue reading
To the moon, Alice
Danakil day 2, morning. Alice said she was feeling envious when I told her we were going to Danakil. She researched it on line and said it looked like the moon. Now that I’ve been there, I would agree. Not that … Continue reading
An awfully big adventure
Danakil day 1: getting there Over the four-day Easter weekend, Andreas and I traveled with eight other ICS teachers to an area called the Danakil Depression in the Afar region of northwestern Ethiopia. It’s taken me a few days to … Continue reading
Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Our daughter Alice might have thought she was getting a bargain when we went overseas and she moved into the big old house. But then about a month into her residency, the kitchen caught fire and the whole first floor … Continue reading
Continuity
Our school is 50 years old this year. It’s hard for me to picture what this school would have been like in 1964. That year I was in kindergarten at Merriewood Elementary School in Lafayette, California, where Mrs. Collins taught … Continue reading
Holiday in hell? Sign me up!
Pursuant to Tuesday’s “don’t go there” post… Some ICS teachers spent last October break in the Danakil Depression in northern Ethiopia, the place National Geographic called the “cruelest environment on earth.” I was sorry to miss that excursion, but we’d … Continue reading
Don’t go there
One of the most frustrating things about our Damascus experience was having our movements restricted. Of course it was (sometimes) for our own good, but coming straight from America we were simply not used to that. I studied up on … Continue reading
Home improvement
An Ethiopian family with a house like ours usually employs a cook or housekeeper who prepares meals in an outbuilding. Ethiopian cooking is slow and spicy and this arrangement keeps the onion and pepper aroma from permeating the house. There … Continue reading
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College spring break
You know the kind of vacation where you’re more worn out when you get home than when you left? That’s the kind we just had. But it was productive. Alekka has a much better idea now of which schools she … Continue reading
Posted in Elsewhere, Family
Tagged Alekka, college visit, international development program, UK colleges, United Kingdom, university
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Lorna of Arabia 