Title: Phil and Caroline with VSO in Eritrea (
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Last Post (from Phil) - 23/Dec/2009 16:36 - 5461 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 - 5468 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 - 5474 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 - 5497 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 - 5508 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 - 5528 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 - 5543 days ago
I’ve referred to the Tigrinya language and it’s strangulated, choking sounds before – essentially a lot of it comes about ...
The End of Summer Training - 22/Sep/2009 12:10 - 5553 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 - 5565 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 - 5571 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 - 5581 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 - 5602 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 - 5615 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 - 5615 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 - 5631 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 - 5635 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 - 5643 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 - 5649 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 - 5658 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 - 5670 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 - 5680 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 - 5686 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 - 5692 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 - 5703 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 - 5712 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...
out of town for the weekend - 13/Apr/2009 08:20 - 5715 days ago
Back in work this Monday morning after a weekend in Segenetti visiting Sami and Helen. Set off earlyish on Saturday although as ...
Walking In Eritrea - 03/Apr/2009 05:19 - 5725 days ago
Eritrea would be perfect walking country if travel permits were more freely available and if you could always carry enough water...
Water Rationing - 23/Mar/2009 12:13 - 5736 days ago
Just a quick one - Google Alerts told us that my previous article had been picked up by someone from 'capitaleritrea.com' and ci...
Getting near to The End? - 21/Mar/2009 12:50 - 5738 days ago
Before getting to the point, just a note to say that Caroline realises that, following a particularly plaintive Facebook status ...
Of rain and books - 17/Mar/2009 14:15 - 5742 days ago
The small rainy season has arrived and the ground smells wonderful. Let’s hope the rains are good this year. Last year they we...
Crisis what crisis? - 12/Mar/2009 08:21 - 5747 days ago
It's time for another bit of a rant I'm afraid.Reading the online versions of newspapers it really does seem as if the developed...
International Women's Day - 05/Mar/2009 14:35 - 5754 days ago
A coffee ceremony was announced at work this morning for 10 o’clock to celebrate International Women’s Day on Sunday. By 11 ...
Rays of Hope? - 27/Feb/2009 12:43 - 5760 days ago
Time for an upbeat post, though you can be sure that it won't be all positive! I've been talking to a teacher, also a VSO volunt...
Untitled - 21/Feb/2009 12:15 - 5766 days ago
I've been playing around with the blog settings (time to kill in the British Council - the only place with fast enough internet ...
Food Security? - 16/Feb/2009 06:10 - 5771 days ago
Saturday morning and there's an insistent tapping at the gate. Upon opening it, it's no surprise to find "The Farmer" standing t...
Nothing much - 10/Feb/2009 08:48 - 5777 days ago
Asmara is looking good, well it always looks good but especially now, as the weather is perfect– completely blue skies – and...
Untitled - 03/Feb/2009 12:18 - 5784 days ago
Old and New Volunteers.-----------------------It's almost exactly one year since we arrived in Asmara and, while work sometimes ...
The Wedding - 26/Jan/2009 11:26 - 5792 days ago
The wedding celebrations started last Thursday with the stag and hen nights. These were the British contribution to the festivit...
Water again - 26/Jan/2009 11:17 - 5792 days ago
We've written about water before. Living in Asmara we have a much easier life than people living in the villages. For that reaso...
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