Title: My VSO Ethiopian Adventures (
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THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE AT DIRE DAWA UNIVERSITY - 06/Mar/2012 15:40 - 4442 days ago
AdmissionIf you are a‘freshman’, yes that includes the girls, (although only an average of 35% of undergraduate students in ...
THE FINALE - 30/Nov/2011 15:29 - 4539 days ago
For a final blog I thought I would answer a question that I was asked to consider before I left, but which is not easy and has r...
TEACHING THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN ADDIS ABABA - 12/Oct/2011 10:44 - 4588 days ago
Addis in the rainy seasonComing to Addis on 10th July from Dire Dawa was like arriving on a different planet. I had been despera...
The Meat Eating Easter Feast that is Fasika - 23/May/2011 09:04 - 4730 days ago
Ethiopian Christians undertake an 8 week fast leading up to Easter, or Fasika, which this year commenced on Monday 2nd March. Or...
IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY - 11/Apr/2011 10:58 - 4772 days ago
Alternatively,‘in the day of the heat!’Although the changing of the seasons here is not as dramatic as it is in Europe, (a c...
Animals - 11/Apr/2011 10:57 - 4772 days ago
Most of you know that I am an ardent animal lover and to some of you I have already made reference to my concern for the treatme...
Travels in Ethiopia - 11/Mar/2011 10:44 - 4803 days ago
Three VSO volunteers set off from AA on Saturday 19th Feb to travel by the long distance luxury Sky Bus up to Gondar, nearly 800...
THE FESTIVE SEASON IN ETHIOPIA - 20/Jan/2011 12:31 - 4853 days ago
It is not easy to get into the festive mood when the sun is shining outside, its hot and everyone around you is working to a dif...
Time passes - 08/Dec/2010 09:37 - 4896 days ago
The season turns and we need a blanket on our beds at night now! The weather is lovely right now with cool, fresh evenings and m...
The Great Ethiopian Run and Visiting Lalibela - 08/Dec/2010 09:32 - 4896 days ago
I was lucky enough a couple of weeks ago to get a week off work to meet up with friend Linda from South Africa who stopped off i...
A SIMPLE LIFE - 16/Nov/2010 10:32 - 4918 days ago
Searching for this seems to be a major driver for many people to do a VSO placement. I did not count it as such for myself, but ...
A BIT ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN ETHIOPIA - 27/Oct/2010 11:46 - 4938 days ago
My first job, with the help of a colleague, Wondifraw, has been to develop and run a 2 week induction programme for new staff.So...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF - 18/Oct/2010 08:32 - 4947 days ago
The nights are rarely silent. It is usually the sound of the packs of neighbourhood dogs that fill the nocturnal air and this ca...
Living here - 11/Oct/2010 10:34 - 4954 days ago
It is early days, but Jenny and I, the VSO colleague assigned to the same institution, are sharing a compound which offers a ver...
Dire Dawa - 11/Oct/2010 10:24 - 4954 days ago
As the plane descended fromAddis Ababaon the morning of 22ndSeptember a very different scene unfolded before our eyes. The land ...
In Country Training (ICT) - 11/Oct/2010 08:34 - 4954 days ago
20 of us arrived in Addis Ababa from Heathrow in the early hours of the 12th September to be met by 3 welcoming and cheerful vol...
Am I ready? - 03/Sep/2010 11:42 - 4992 days ago
Well, with a week to go, this is the key question. The pressure to extricate myself from this country and deal with all the nece...
Pre-Departure Training No.2! - 24/Aug/2010 10:39 - 5002 days ago
The next on-line course was called‘Realities of Volunteering’. In this we did some hard hitting work on power and corruption...
Pre-departure training - 24/Aug/2010 10:27 - 5002 days ago
VSO take a very thorough and professional approach to ensuring their volunteers have the right skills and knowledge for working ...
Introduction - 19/Jul/2010 09:29 - 5038 days ago
This blog is set up to tell you stories from my Ethiopian adventures. Stay tuned and find exciting pictures and stories which wi...
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