Category Archives: Ethiopia

Cookies loved and lost

Posted on 16 Dec 2014 by lornaofarabia

I invited some ladies who bake over to my house last Sunday for a cookie exchange. We drank mulled wine on the front porch in the afternoon sun. December in Ethiopia is very pleasant, just like all the other months … Continue reading →

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Lights out

Posted on 24 Nov 2014 by lornaofarabia

Alekka filming a cooking video at home on “how to bake bread” for her Spanish class. Papi, encender el generador! Yup, this is pretty much how the baking has been going lately.

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At least I’m consistent

Posted on 1 Oct 2014 by lornaofarabia

I knew it would happen eventually when I saw it on a friend’s Facebook page. Now it’s already been a few weeks since a former NMHS colleague invited me to share my ten favorite books, and I’ve been tagged twice … Continue reading →

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BMOC

Posted on 23 Sep 2014 by lornaofarabia

One school day a couple of weeks ago, the first email of the morning was marked with a red “priority” arrow and contained this information from our director: There is a large adult male baboon on the loose in our … Continue reading →

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Bale Mountain Lodge

Posted on 15 Sep 2014 by lornaofarabia

At a party our first year in Addis I met a British man named Guy who told me about an upscale eco-lodge he was building in Bale Mountain National Park (pronounced with two syllables BAH-lay, not like a bale of … Continue reading →

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A day on the Sanetti Plateau

Posted on 13 Sep 2014 by lornaofarabia

We wondered whether we would see any Ethiopian wolves on the plateau. There are very few of them left in the world. Last year the count for this endangered canid was about 500 over six small regions, one of which … Continue reading →

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The little Hilux that could

Posted on 12 Sep 2014 by lornaofarabia

I don’t have a car right now, so I hired a driver with a Toyota Land Cruiser for a four-day weekend trip to the Bale Mountains. Thursday’s drive to the lodge went well. But this morning we took the car … Continue reading →

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Home away from home

Posted on 29 Aug 2014 by lornaofarabia

Our school begins earlier than most. I was back at work August 5. Students started classes on the 12th. The first weeks of the term are always busy with gatherings: teacher meetings, assemblies, parent nights. This year those meetings more … Continue reading →

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CARE

Posted on 5 Jun 2014 by lornaofarabia

A few months ago Alekka began an internship at CARE Ethiopia’s downtown office. Her job on Tuesday and Friday afternoons is to edit stories for publication in the NGO’s newsletter. CARE’s projects in Ethiopia focus on teaching modern farming methods … Continue reading →

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Gonder, part 2

Posted on 1 Jun 2014 by lornaofarabia

As promised, pictures from around town on our trip to Gonder.

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