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Party like it’s 2005
Ethiopians use a different calendar than we do in the West. I first caught on to that when, reading through my ICS contract, I encountered the statement “all dates herein refer to the Gregorian calendar.” Ethiopians have 12 months of … Continue reading
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A sign of humility
This new business opened up across the street from our apartment complex a couple of weeks ago. No one can accuse them of overdoing the hype.
Kitchen disaster, round 2
What is it with us and kitchens, anyway? Most of you probably know what happened a year ago last Monday. Three weeks after we moved to Syria, Nik and Alice had a fire back in Medford that precipitated a full … Continue reading
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The Varnero faranji
We flew into Addis late at night on July 28. The middle school principal and a driver met us in the airport parking lot and chauffeured us to our new home in the Lebu district of southwestern Addis Ababa. The … Continue reading
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Junk in the trunk
Ethiopia is a land-locked country. The nearest ports are in Eritrea and Djibouti. Ethiopia and Eritrea don’t get along so well these days, so goods shipped via boat from overseas come through the port in Djibouti. All summer long, while … Continue reading
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Here we go again…
This time around I’m not going to apologize for letting the blog languish. One thing I’ve learned is that acclimating to a new country takes a little while, and during that adjustment period it’s hard for me to muster up … Continue reading
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Lorna of Arabia 