This blog was used to talk about our Ethiopia experience, now we live in Mexico city and talk about that instead
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 is a kind of ‘summary’ post on what we have been up to in the last few weeks. It has been a month of ups and downs ranging from the massacre of our chickens, preparing and delivering another workshop, swine flu and preparing to leave Ethiopia. I will start at the very beginning.
Upon our [...]
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 [...]
I won’t say this post is another negative post, but it certainly isn’t positive either. For some reason I find it easier to write about the difficulties of living here since it gives me more to talk about. Plus if I write about all the fun I am having everyone will be thinking ‘git, you’re [...]
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 [...]
Jen keeps telling me off for being pessimistic and negative in my blog posts, so after spending the last few sleepless nights hearing and hunting for a giant rat in our house I am going to write about all the things that are great here in Ethiopia. I apologise if this comes off as a [...]
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 [...]
As some of you may know I try to hold and live by Buddhist principles. Admittedly I am not that good at some of them, although I get a few right. I don’t eat meat or kill animals for any reason, I meditate most days and do my best to act thoughtfully but I still [...]
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