Category Archives: Ethiopia

Lalibela – day 2

Posted on 13 Oct 2013 by lornaofarabia

The next morning we were up and out early to see the second cluster of churches. Although these were carved out at the same time as the churches in the other group, the stone here is a softer type and … Continue reading →

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Lalibela – day 1

Posted on 11 Oct 2013 by lornaofarabia

We recently had a Friday off in honor of Meskal, one of the three biggest holidays (along with Christmas and Timket) on the Ethiopian religious calendar. We spent the holiday with four other teachers on an excursion to the northern … Continue reading →

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O honorable one

Posted on 24 Sep 2013 by lornaofarabia

I’m feeling a little guilty about broadcasting my daughter’s vehicular mishap all over the Internet. She’s a great kid. So I am going to post something nice about her. A couple of weeks ago, our school held an induction ceremony … Continue reading →

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Could be worse

Posted on 10 Sep 2013 by lornaofarabia

Did I say something about trading up?  For the past three days our neighborhood has had no electricity. For reasons I will explain in another post, that means we also do not have running water.  This morning we used up … Continue reading →

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There’s no place like home

Posted on 8 Sep 2013 by lornaofarabia

Finally the blog has caught up with us in real time… we actually arrived home in Addis Ababa on August 5. For the next month I spent all my spare minutes sorting through the hundreds of photos I’d taken on … Continue reading →

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HebCeltFest

Posted on 20 Jul 2013 by lornaofarabia

I am music-deprived in Ethiopia. I long for hot summer nights on the lawn at Jacksonville’s Britt Festival. Sure, I can hear regional ethnic Ethiopian music at Dimma restaurant any night of the week. And we have some teacher friends … Continue reading →

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Kaldi’s

Posted on 18 Jun 2013 by lornaofarabia

Ethiopia is not only the cradle of mankind, it’s the birthplace of coffee. According to historian Antony Wild in Coffee: A Dark History, Lucy and her prehistoric friends might even have been chewing on the beans. Later, the first roasted … Continue reading →

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Moving along

Posted on 8 Jun 2013 by lornaofarabia

Just a month ago, the end of the school year seemed a point on the distant horizon. Now suddenly we have only a week left in which to accomplish what looks to be an impossibly long list of tasks. There … Continue reading →

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Put to the test

Posted on 6 Jun 2013 by lornaofarabia

The end of the academic year is upon us.  For ICS high schoolers this means what it does for students everywhere: finals. Da-da-da-DUM. ICS high school students are on a special three-day exam schedule this week. On Thursday and Friday, … Continue reading →

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The raw and the cooked

Posted on 2 Jun 2013 by lornaofarabia

It’s hard to believe 30 years have passed since fellow campaigners at Walter Mondale HQ introduced me to Ethiopian food at the (now, sadly, closed) Red Sea restaurant in Adams Morgan.  My first time there I fell in love with … Continue reading →

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