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Ethio-Pictures–Photographic Exhibition - 21/Apr/2012 19:25 - 4394 days ago
We have a photo exhibition at Blackhall Library now on. It runs from 16th to 30th April. It’s in the lobby as you enter th...
Ethio-Pictures–Photographic Exhibition - 21/Apr/2012 19:25 - 4394 days ago
We have a photo exhibition at Blackhall Library now on. It runs from 16th to 30th April. It’s in the lobby as you enter th...
VSO Campaign Continues! - 21/Apr/2012 19:14 - 4394 days ago
I was interviewed recently for the lastest VSO campaign. Here are some videos which talk about the whole VSO experience. One foc...
VSO Campaign Continues! - 21/Apr/2012 19:14 - 4394 days ago
I was interviewed recently for the lastest VSO campaign. Here are some videos which talk about the whole VSO experience. One foc...
VSO Edinburgh–Returned Volunteers Talk - 15/Jan/2012 20:42 - 4491 days ago
On Friday night we gave a talk about our experiences to the VSO Edinburgh Group. It was a great evening – lots of discussi...
VSO Edinburgh–Returned Volunteers Talk - 15/Jan/2012 20:42 - 4491 days ago
On Friday night we gave a talk about our experiences to the VSO Edinburgh Group. It was a great evening – lots of discussi...
Article In Highland Life! - 20/Dec/2011 19:55 - 4517 days ago
We have now had an article published in the December issue of Highland Life. I might be popping up in other articles soon as par...
Article In Highland Life! - 20/Dec/2011 19:55 - 4517 days ago
We have now had an article published in the December issue of Highland Life. I might be popping up in other articles soon as par...
RV Conference - 01/Nov/2011 15:00 - 4566 days ago
In October it was the Returned Volunteers Conference in Harborne Hall in Birmingham. It was very nostalgic to be back in the pla...
RV Conference - 01/Nov/2011 15:00 - 4566 days ago
In October it was the Returned Volunteers Conference in Harborne Hall in Birmingham. It was very nostalgic to be back in the pla...
Food! - 16/Oct/2011 12:00 - 4582 days ago
Today is Blog Action Day, so we have decided to write a little bit about this year’s topic – food! Since coming back...
Food! - 16/Oct/2011 12:00 - 4582 days ago
Today is Blog Action Day, so we have decided to write a little bit about this year’s topic – food! Since coming back...
Meet VSO - 15/Oct/2011 12:00 - 4583 days ago
On Monday and Wednesday of this week we made presentations at the ‘Meet VSO’ events in Edinburgh. This is a chance f...
Meet VSO - 15/Oct/2011 12:00 - 4583 days ago
On Monday and Wednesday of this week we made presentations at the ‘Meet VSO’ events in Edinburgh. This is a chance f...
Scottish Learning Festival - 22/Sep/2011 10:30 - 4606 days ago
Here I am at yesterday’s Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow working on both the Developing Global Citizens stall and th...
Scottish Learning Festival - 22/Sep/2011 10:30 - 4606 days ago
Here I am at yesterday’s Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow working on both the Developing Global Citizens stall and th...
Another Media Mention - 30/Aug/2011 12:30 - 4629 days ago
Here’s another media mention, this time on the STV website. Click here to go to the article: Here’s my quote: “I w...
Another Media Mention - 30/Aug/2011 12:30 - 4629 days ago
Here’s another media mention, this time on the STV website. Click here to go to the article: Here’s my quote: “I w...
Meeting VSO Friends - 29/Aug/2011 20:50 - 4630 days ago
It’s been great to meet up with some folks from VSO days. We met Martin from Mekele and Crissy (a previous Abi Adi VSO vol...
Meeting VSO Friends - 29/Aug/2011 20:50 - 4630 days ago
It’s been great to meet up with some folks from VSO days. We met Martin from Mekele and Crissy (a previous Abi Adi VSO vol...
VSO Board - 20/Aug/2011 23:00 - 4639 days ago
Now I’ve returned to my primary school in Edinburgh I am delighted to find that the school have been following my Ethiopia...
Media Mention! - 11/Aug/2011 22:16 - 4648 days ago
Last week I was asked for a quote about my experiences on VSO for a national newspaper, The Guardian. Here is a link to the arti...
Awris Dancing - 22/Jul/2011 02:11 - 4668 days ago
Awris is a type of dance originating from Abi Adi and the surrounding Tembien region. It has been described as imitating the mov...
Driving Into Town - 15/Jul/2011 19:32 - 4675 days ago
Here’s a video of our journey into town. We would do this every few days, often going into town on the college service bus...
Camels - 14/Jul/2011 19:53 - 4676 days ago
I love camels! Living in Ethiopia has given me the chance to see these animals up close and they really are fascinating creature...
Goodbye to Ethiopia - 13/Jul/2011 14:10 - 4677 days ago
After leaving Abi Adi we took the plane from Mekele down to Addis Ababa and the next day was spent doing paperwork for VSO to pr...
Dust Devils in Abi Adi - 13/Jul/2011 13:04 - 4677 days ago
Occasionally we would see mini whirlwinds in Abi Adi. These are called “dust devils” and are quite spectacular as th...
Farewell Party - 10/Jul/2011 16:59 - 4680 days ago
The day after the graduation ceremony was our last day in Abi Adi. It was a busy Sunday, packing our bags and cleaning up the ho...
Obama Fans - 05/Jul/2011 08:11 - 4685 days ago
President Obama is popular with the young people in Ethiopia, and you can often see his name and face on T-Shirts and other thin...
Graduation Day - 04/Jul/2011 10:37 - 4686 days ago
Saturday 25th June was Graduation Day in the college. After three years of study and hard work the students enjoyed this final d...
Meet The Staff #10 - 04/Jul/2011 10:31 - 4686 days ago
This is Aregawi who works on the main gate as a guard. He is always impressed by our attempts at Tigrigna, and often says “Dah...
Birds of Ethiopia - 03/Jul/2011 08:33 - 4687 days ago
The birds of Ethiopia are plentiful, colourful and quite spectacular. Here are some of the birds we’ve seen around Ethiopi...
Meet The Staff #9 - 26/Jun/2011 13:33 - 4694 days ago
This year I have worked closely with Kibreab, the Special Needs instructor at the College. He has been lots of fun and I think w...
Peace Corps Come To Abi Adi - 22/Jun/2011 18:05 - 4698 days ago
Yesterday we had two visitors, Thor and Ally who are new Peace Corps volunteers from America. They will be teaching English at A...
Creepy Crawlies - 20/Jun/2011 18:23 - 4700 days ago
We have seen our share of creepy crawlies in the last 10 months. Ants are everywhere, big and small. Sometimes at night we would...
New Suits - 17/Jun/2011 16:16 - 4703 days ago
It’s one week to Graduation Day and the final year students have been getting ready for the big occasion. This week some t...
Eskista - 15/Jun/2011 17:48 - 4705 days ago
Ethiopian dancing is spectacular! The dancing style, known as ‘eskista’, involves a lot of vigorous head jerking and...
Meet The Staff #8 - 15/Jun/2011 09:12 - 4705 days ago
Here is Mr. Negusa. He works in student support and also does lots of odd jobs around the campus; watering the plants, setting u...
Water Filter - 13/Jun/2011 07:58 - 4707 days ago
Here we are using our water filter. We put water from the tap in a pan and boil it for about three minutes, which kills any bugs...
Tizita - 12/Jun/2011 15:12 - 4708 days ago
A popular type of song in Ethiopia and Eritrea is “tizita”. According to wikipedia; Tizita (Amharic: ትዝታ,̶...
More Gymnastics - 12/Jun/2011 13:34 - 4708 days ago
The students in the Aesthetics Department are very active in the college. They will be music, art and PE teachers in the future ...
Exam Week - 10/Jun/2011 06:28 - 4710 days ago
It is now the week of final exams in the college for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students, who have all been working hard all year...
Making Marvellous Manuals - 06/Jun/2011 07:47 - 4714 days ago
On Friday Gareth and I worked together to deliver an afternoon of training for the college lecturers. The subject was how to mak...
Meet The Staff #7 - 06/Jun/2011 07:41 - 4714 days ago
This is Molla, the Head of the Language Department and my line manager in the college. He is an English teacher with a lot of ex...
The Home of Coffee - 05/Jun/2011 16:44 - 4715 days ago
Ethiopia is proud to claim to be the home of coffee. Indeed the coffee ceremony is a major part of daily culture and the coffee ...
VSO Final Visit - 03/Jun/2011 06:38 - 4717 days ago
This week, Ayele, our VSO programme manager came to visit us from Addis. As well as checking up on how Bob and Pam were settling...
Traditional Tootbrushes - 03/Jun/2011 06:31 - 4717 days ago
As an ex-dentist, this is an interesting photo. This is the man who sells local style toothbrushes in the town. They are basical...
Third Year English Training - 30/May/2011 19:50 - 4721 days ago
The last three weeks have been very busy – we have been working on an intensive English training course for all third year lan...
Abi Adi Annual National Research Conference - 30/May/2011 19:22 - 4721 days ago
The internet has been a bit unreliable in the last two or three weeks as the rainy season has arrived and there have been more p...
20th Anniversary Celebrations - 28/May/2011 15:29 - 4723 days ago
Happy Downfall of the Derg Day! Today is another public holiday in Ethiopia and this one is extra special as it is the 20th anni...
Changing Seasons - 22/May/2011 06:21 - 4729 days ago
When we arrived in Abi Adi on 22nd September the landscape was green and lush and the teff was growing in the fields. Eight mont...
Meet The Staff #? - 19/May/2011 15:39 - 4732 days ago
This is Furkado, the Chief Driver of the college vehicles and Head of the Social Committee. The photo below was taken at the rec...
Meet The Staff #6 - 19/May/2011 15:39 - 4732 days ago
This is Furkado, the Chief Driver of the college vehicles and Head of the Social Committee. The photo below was taken at the rec...
Queues - 17/May/2011 18:24 - 4734 days ago
Back in January the government brought in a number of price caps for certain foods and drinks, in an effort to control inflation...
Farewell Lounge! - 13/May/2011 05:16 - 4738 days ago
The college is undergoing a period of change – so-called BPR – Business Process Reengineering. In reality, this mean...
Ginbot Mariam - 12/May/2011 05:07 - 4739 days ago
Monday was the Virgin Mary’s birthday (‘Ginbot Mariam’) according to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. So what be...
Farewell Martin! - 11/May/2011 17:04 - 4740 days ago
Last weekend we said goodbye to Martin, our nearest VSO volunteer in Mekelle. He’s been a great support to us and it’...
Special Needs and Inclusion Training - 11/May/2011 16:48 - 4740 days ago
Last week I ran a training day for the college instructors in Special Needs and Inclusion. We talked about the definition of Spe...
DS House - 04/May/2011 18:19 - 4747 days ago
Up and down the country you can find DS houses in every town, where on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon you’ll find large cr...
Easter In Ethiopia - 28/Apr/2011 19:41 - 4753 days ago
Sunday was a big day here. Easter, or Fasika, is the biggest Christian festival of the year. People visit their families in thei...
Pictures In The Kitchen - 25/Apr/2011 19:34 - 4756 days ago
Here’s a photo of our kitchen wall decorated with pictures from the students of P2B at Blackhall Primary School. They real...
English Training–Part Two - 25/Apr/2011 19:30 - 4756 days ago
Last week was the second English language training weekend - the first one was back in November and the same participants came...
Happy Easter! - 24/Apr/2011 19:17 - 4757 days ago
Hello Everyone! We hope everybody had a lovely Easter weekend. We would like to thank you all for the support and encouragement ...
Easter Rings - 23/Apr/2011 05:40 - 4758 days ago
Everybody is now gearing up for Easter Sunday, the biggest holiday of the year for Ethiopian Christians. A lot of the teachers a...
Easter Rings And Headbands - 23/Apr/2011 05:40 - 4758 days ago
Everybody is now gearing up for Easter Sunday, the biggest holiday of the year for Ethiopian Christians. A lot of the teachers a...
Millennium Dam - 19/Apr/2011 19:18 - 4762 days ago
Everybody’s talking about the dam! Once upon a time we had the Millennium Dome, but Ethiopia has just started construction...
Buying a Habasha Dress - 18/Apr/2011 19:14 - 4763 days ago
Next Sunday is Easter (or ‘Fasika’ in the local language), the biggest celebration for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians...
Making Tef Flour - 18/Apr/2011 19:04 - 4763 days ago
Around the town are a number of milling houses where people can bring the tef they have harvested or bought to get it ground up ...
Quiz of the Week #5–Mystery Tree - 14/Apr/2011 19:04 - 4767 days ago
In the last couple of weeks a lot of trees on the campus have started to bear a large, balloon-like green fruit. The fruit is ho...
The Little Folk of Abi Adi! - 13/Apr/2011 18:42 - 4768 days ago
In the little town of Abi Adi we see many little children wandering around town. They can be as young as two years old, just pla...
New Volunteers! - 13/Apr/2011 18:22 - 4768 days ago
Welcome to Bob and Pam, two new VSO volunteers from England who will be working at Abi Adi College over the next two years. We h...
Helen Berhe–“Lebe” - 10/Apr/2011 07:14 - 4771 days ago
This is our favourite song in Ethiopia so far. It’s quite modern and very different from most other songs we hear around. ...
Jazz, Vans and Logos - 03/Apr/2011 18:55 - 4778 days ago
Last weekend I went down to Addis again to enjoy the 2nd annual Acacia Jazz Festival. It was good to see some live music –...
Strange Fruit - 02/Apr/2011 19:41 - 4779 days ago
We see many interesting fruit in the market and in the last few weeks there has been some new additions to what is available. Ma...
Meeting Dr. Bak - 31/Mar/2011 22:40 - 4781 days ago
It turns out that we are not the only foreigners living in Abi Adi. There are two doctors working in the hospital here from̷...
Fantastic Female Teachers - 31/Mar/2011 20:32 - 4781 days ago
A couple of Saturdays back, I did my first ‘Fantastic Female Teachers’ class. This was open to all the female studen...
Travels–Maychew - 22/Mar/2011 08:05 - 4790 days ago
After Woldia, it was on to Maychew the next day. The journey was rather long and frustrating as we had to wait a long time for b...
Visiting Abbiyi Addi Elementary School - 22/Mar/2011 06:03 - 4790 days ago
Last week we visited Abbiyi Addi Elementary School to help out in some English lessons with Gebrekidane, one of the English teac...
Travels–Woldia - 21/Mar/2011 20:16 - 4791 days ago
On our way back from Lalibela, we stopped off at two interesting towns where we were able to meet up with some volunteer friends...
Annual Partnership Review - 17/Mar/2011 18:06 - 4795 days ago
On Tuesday, some visitors from VSO in Addis and a short term volunteer from Canada, Jean, visited the college to conduct the Ann...
Female Students Celebration - 13/Mar/2011 19:51 - 4799 days ago
To coincide with International Womens Day on March 8th, the female affairs office organised a celebration and awareness raising ...
Visiting the Kindergarten - 10/Mar/2011 06:21 - 4802 days ago
Today I popped in to see some of the children who attend Selam’s kindergarten in the town. I was delighted that they remem...
Travels–Lalibela - 08/Mar/2011 22:06 - 4804 days ago
Gareth and I visited Lalibela after the end of In-Country Training and were joined by Martin, our friend from Mekele. Lalibela i...
Travels–Tepi - 05/Mar/2011 15:11 - 4807 days ago
After a few days in Jimma it was onto the far south-west of the country to visit another volunteer. Martin is working on IT at t...
College Tour - 03/Mar/2011 20:59 - 4809 days ago
We are working at Abbiyi Addi College of Teacher Education (CTE) in the north of Ethiopia. CTEs are for the training of primary ...
Travels–Jimma - 02/Mar/2011 20:10 - 4810 days ago
Jimma is the largest city in the south-west of the country. I was shown around by a couple of volunteers who work at the univers...
Travels–Addis Ababa - 01/Mar/2011 18:29 - 4811 days ago
On this visit to Addis I was able to become a bit more familiar with the city, as on the previous visit back in September we wer...
In Country Training (ICT) - 26/Feb/2011 19:00 - 4814 days ago
We are now back in Abi Adi and I am able to update properly on the In Country Training that took place in February. The organise...
Travels–Awasa - 25/Feb/2011 06:35 - 4815 days ago
Shashemene is the home to a small Rastafarian community living on land donated by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1948, but other than...
In-Country Training–Now in video! - 17/Feb/2011 18:25 - 4823 days ago
In-Country Training is now over and the volunteers are off to start their placements. Here is a short video made by one of the n...
Travels–Robe - 15/Feb/2011 07:48 - 4825 days ago
It’s been a few weeks since the last post. The college is now on semester break so I have taken the opportunity to visit s...
Preparing In-Country Training - 03/Feb/2011 18:52 - 4837 days ago
Here we are, the In Country Training team. Martin, Paul and I have been spending the week in the VSO Ethiopia office in Addis Ab...
End of Semester - 27/Jan/2011 20:24 - 4844 days ago
The semester has now ended and the students have gone home. It’s very quiet on the campus now, with just the instructors a...
Timkat Celebrations in Axum - 21/Jan/2011 17:55 - 4850 days ago
Earlier this week Gareth and I went to Axum, one of Ethiopia’s most famous towns and home of the Axumite civilisation. We ...
Yawe Way - 21/Jan/2011 08:20 - 4850 days ago
Here’s another music video we see a lot on the television – Yawe Way by Mewded Kebru. What makes it unusual is the a...
Price Caps - 17/Jan/2011 18:46 - 4854 days ago
In town this evening a small crowd had gathered around the notice wall. Often we can see posters, information and job advertisem...
Meet The Staff #5 - 14/Jan/2011 17:05 - 4857 days ago
This is Abrahat and Mammeet, who work in the staff lounge, serving coffee, tea and egg sandwiches to the college lecturers all d...
Abi Adi High School - 12/Jan/2011 20:06 - 4859 days ago
This morning I visited Abi Adi High School, on the outskirts of the town. This school is for Grade 9 and 10 (who attend the afte...
Zumbara - 12/Jan/2011 04:53 - 4859 days ago
We hear a lot of Ethiopian music all around us – on the TV in the staff lounge, coming from the bars and shops in town and...
Monkeys and Mylomin - 10/Jan/2011 18:16 - 4861 days ago
Yesterday Gareth and I went to the Mylomin area of town for a little exploring. We have been there before for drinking tej but h...
Ethiopian Christmas - 08/Jan/2011 09:55 - 4863 days ago
Yesterday, 7th January, was Christmas Day in Ethiopia. “Melkam Ledet!” (That’s Happy Christmas in Tigrigna) We...
Gymnastics Club - 06/Jan/2011 16:13 - 4865 days ago
Every day at 5.30 to 6.30 in the evening a group of students come to practise gymnastics on some exercise bars near the college ...
Honey - 05/Jan/2011 18:16 - 4866 days ago
Honey from this region – Tigray honey – is highly regarded, so we decided to buy some from the honey sellers who com...
Meet the Staff #4 - 04/Jan/2011 17:22 - 4867 days ago
This is Addisalem, who works in the cluster office. Their job is to support the surrounding schools by providing training from t...
A Golden Opportunity - 03/Jan/2011 18:53 - 4868 days ago
Tonight we were invited to an after-school English language class for high school students in the town. We were surprised to see...
Quiz of the Week #4 - 02/Jan/2011 09:01 - 4869 days ago
Here’s another mystery drink, Time for you to stop and think, If you know what it is, Leave a comment in this quiz!...
Happy New Year (for some!) - 01/Jan/2011 19:50 - 4870 days ago
Happy New Year! We had a quiet celebration at home this year. In fact, it is not New Year here at all. The year yesterday was 20...
Christmas in Mekele - 29/Dec/2010 18:34 - 4873 days ago
Gareth and I spent a long Christmas weekend in Mekele, the nearest city to us yet a three and a half hour bus ride away from Abi...
100 Days in Ethiopia - 20/Dec/2010 10:56 - 4882 days ago
Today is Day 100 for us in Ethiopia! We have had some amazing experiences so far, some challenges and one or two successes! Ever...
Hopscotch - 20/Dec/2010 10:53 - 4882 days ago
On Friday I taught two little girls how to play hopscotch! The two children are often found in the staff lounge and I think they...
Beer and Inflation - 20/Dec/2010 07:32 - 4882 days ago
Prices fluctuate quite easily here. Last week a meal out (injera and tibs – goat meat) was 12 birr (48 pence). This week i...
Government Housing Scheme - 19/Dec/2010 22:31 - 4883 days ago
On the western edge of Abi Adi there is quite a large development of colourful apartment blocks. In a town where most houses are...
Threshing and Winnowing Tef - 15/Dec/2010 08:22 - 4887 days ago
Once the tef has been harvested the next stage is to separate the grain from the rest of the plant. We can see this happening al...
Special Needs Training - 13/Dec/2010 18:02 - 4889 days ago
This weekend, Kibreab and I worked together on two days of Special Needs training for about 60 school teachers from the surround...
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