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We have just passed into the realm of Gonder
Last weekend Andreas and I took an overnight trip to Gonder (also spelled Gondar) in northwestern Ethiopia. Alekka had already visited Gonder on a school trip so she opted to stay home and work on her Extended Essay. Gonder was … Continue reading
Wardrobe malfunction
Everything in our house here has a lock on it. The desks, the cupboards, even the refrigerator. We don’t use most of the locks (if you can’t trust your guards and housekeeper, who can you trust?), but there are a … Continue reading
Posted in Home life
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1:1
ICS is what’s called a one-to-one laptop school. Here, that means that every kid in grade 6 is entitled to his own school-issued computer. It’s funny to think how normal this seems to me now in Addis Ababa, yet how … Continue reading
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Tagged 1:1 laptop, ICS, one-to-one laptop, technology
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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
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
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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Lorna of Arabia 