Title: Phil and Caroline (
Eritrea)
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Last Post (from Phil) - 23/Dec/2009 16:36 - 5246 days ago
I don't have much more to say except to echo Caroline's wishes and to add that I will miss both playing and watching football wi...
The Last Post (from Caroline) - 16/Dec/2009 12:47 - 5253 days ago
So we reach the time to write a last blog. It doesn’t seem that long since the setting up of the blog one afternoon in the UK ...
Schools' Solar Power– Last Update? - 10/Dec/2009 06:43 - 5259 days ago
Firstly, our apologies for not posting very often lately, but our departure from Eritrea is coming up very fast now and we have ...
Graduation Eritrea-Style - 17/Nov/2009 12:06 - 5282 days ago
A scene from a party tentEducation is taken seriously in this country with the emphasis being on getting as many children into s...
Our 2008 Christmas Appeal– Thanks to all our contributors - 06/Nov/2009 07:06 - 5293 days ago
Well it started off as an appeal to buy a (dangerous-looking) motorised tricycle for Dawit a friend of ours who is confined to a...
A Walk on the Wild Side - 17/Oct/2009 11:44 - 5313 days ago
All cities have their murky, seamy side; their raw, dark underbelly and these need to be visited sometimes in order to get an id...
An Intake of Breath - 02/Oct/2009 12:12 - 5328 days ago
I’ve referred to the Tigrinya language and its strangulated, choking sounds before – essentially a lot of it comes about by ...
The End of Summer Training - 22/Sep/2009 12:10 - 5338 days ago
Well it’s late September and everybodyreallyshould be back at school and so summer ICT training has come to an end for this ye...
Happy New Year - 10/Sep/2009 12:45 - 5350 days ago
I’ve worked this morning to the accompaniment of loud squawking complaints coming from a bag under my boss’s desk. The chic...
Bits - 04/Sep/2009 05:33 - 5356 days ago
We were stopped on the way to work by a taxi frantically blowing it’s horn, turned out to be a friend who, in spite of passeng...
Rain - 25/Aug/2009 06:58 - 5366 days ago
It’s been raining almost constantly here for 48 hours, unusual compared to the rainy seasons of the last few years but I’m a...
The Eritrea Festival - 04/Aug/2009 05:25 - 5387 days ago
This week is the week of the Eritrea Festival at the Asmara Expo ground. It's a week in which Eritrean companies and organisatio...
Who is the anonymous person? - 22/Jul/2009 11:30 - 5400 days ago
I'm very grateful to the anonomous person who has just sent me a parcel of assorted chocolate, but I wish I knew who you were. T...
Eritrea Wildlife - 22/Jul/2009 11:14 - 5400 days ago
We find ourselves noticing quite a bit of wildlife, mainly birds, around just now– maybe it's the lack of other volunteers to ...
it's wet - 06/Jul/2009 11:52 - 5416 days ago
Well, the rain has finally come and spirits have definitely lifted. Not something you’d ever hear said in the UK but it really...
It’s ICT teaching time - 02/Jul/2009 14:41 - 5420 days ago
For about the next 10 weeks I’m going to be really busy as it’s time to get back in the MoE teaching lab and try to help 4 g...
Becoming Eritrean - 24/Jun/2009 12:38 - 5428 days ago
We’ve been here 17 months now. For me it’s the time when I realise that I’ve taken on, albeit very superficially, a veneer...
Waiting for Rain - 18/Jun/2009 05:29 - 5434 days ago
The rains are coming any day now. The air is heavy and sticky (though not in a lowlands kind of a way) and we're getting a daily...
Our Situation - 09/Jun/2009 13:49 - 5443 days ago
Well our regional director has now been, won (almost) all of us over with her direct, open, professional, knowledgeable and chee...
Another day in Asmara - 28/May/2009 08:15 - 5455 days ago
Asmara is in a hot sleepy mood at the moment. Everyone walks slowly and on the side of the road that’s in the shade. It seems ...
Asmara children - 18/May/2009 11:58 - 5465 days ago
We meet a lot of children, not only in the classrooms, but on the streets, for the western concept of having to guard your child...
Out of Africa - Maybe - 12/May/2009 06:51 - 5471 days ago
In this kind of are-we-or-aren’t-we leaving limbo in which we find ourselves I’ve had a little time to think about things I'...
School Visits - 06/May/2009 11:49 - 5477 days ago
School VisitsIt was a week of school visits last week and all of them turned out to be very positive. It was C’s task to go to...
Another week passes ... - 25/Apr/2009 11:57 - 5488 days ago
The Hoopoes and the storks are back, a sign that a year has passed, and so quickly. A pair of storks even considered nesting in ...
The Motorised Wheelchair Campaign - 16/Apr/2009 05:12 - 5497 days ago
We’re still looking for a little more cash in order to reach our quite modest target of about 1500 GBP but there has been a ch...
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