This blog was used to talk about our Ethiopia experience, now we live in Mexico city and talk about that instead
So we are now back in Addis for a few days sorting out paperwork before we leave. We are UK bound next week. I had been pestering Jen to write a post before this on current events however for some reason she didn’t want to (I didn’t know what to write!!!!- Jen). Therefore I will [...]
It’s been a while since my last post unfortunately, work was busy and then we left for Addis for a week. Jen will write up a post on what happened in the last few weeks (of which quite a bit occurred) as I tend to miss important details. So instead I’m going to waffle on [...]
This continues directly on from part one yesterday. Jen will post her stories over the next few days.
After Bahar Dar we travelled up to Gondar which used to be the capital of Ethiopia but is now a dump. It holds a few castles which were built by the Portuguese in the 17th century for another [...]
It’s been a little quiet on here recently because both of us have been travelling northern Ethiopia and doing the tourist thing. We had a great time and pictures will eventually go on facebook although very few of them are from either me or Jen as neither of us has a camera at the moment [...]
We live in a small city and are lucky enough to get by with the shops and utilities on offer. Harar is an easy place to live and although we miss a lot from home, there is enough here to keep us happy and occupied. We are certainly better off than other volunteers placed in [...]
There are many things slowing down Ethiopia’s development, and each person that you ask will give a different reason. Jen would say it’s because all the men here are barbaric and stop, stare and shout obscenities at you in the street. Whereas others say it’s the lack of skilled workers or the towering bureaucracy or [...]
Its sods law that when I post a blog about having no work to do everything here goes mental and I barely have time to breathe, so I actually have had work to do for the last few weeks and I wanted to post this last week but just didn’t have the time.
One thing in [...]
Here is another apology for the lack of posts here recently. The internet has been appalling for several weeks and only just got to the state where I can load the websites without waiting several hours. Cheers to the hopped up monkey sailors that managed to sever all the communication lines between Europe and Africa [...]
A few weeks ago we did the tourist thing and went around Harar to see why it is considered an upcoming backpacking/tourist destination. A big group of us either from VSO (myself, Jen and Ben) and a few Americans from the university spent all day touring around and taking pictures (A few of which are [...]
The reason I am in Ethiopia is to help the development of the country in whatever small way I can. I thought it was about time I described my job and what I am doing here, I doubt anyone really knows anything about what I do since up until very recently I didn’t either. Plus [...]
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