Title: Tara's Ethiopian Adventure (
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readjusting... - 05/Jan/2011 22:44 - 5083 days ago
It didn't take anytime readjusting to life in the UK when I came back for a holiday in the summer but this time it feels very di...
The Story of the Lost and Found Sheep - 27/Dec/2010 20:50 - 5092 days ago
No celebration in Ethiopia would be complete without a slaughtered sheep or goat! It went without saying then that we would have...
Great Ethiopian Hobble... - 23/Nov/2010 11:35 - 5126 days ago
Two days later and I am still recovering. I feel nauseous, dizzy, my head hurts and my legs only seem capable of an awkward hobb...
A Dog Bite Adventure... - 09/Nov/2010 13:45 - 5140 days ago
I had grand plans if getting loads done at work on Thursday but they were dashed when I was attacked by my landlord's dog. Not c...
Full Circle... - 24/Oct/2010 13:52 - 5156 days ago
A year since I first arrived and I have been finding it amazing reflecting on all that has changed since then. It seems like yes...
Fw: Feeling at home... - 15/Oct/2010 15:05 - 5165 days ago
I've been feeling pretty bad recently about the fact that I haven't been making such regular updates to my blog. It definitely i...
Jambo Ambo - 15/Oct/2010 15:04 - 5165 days ago
We had a very silly experience the other lunch time at a local bar/cafe. All we wanted was 2 Ambo (local mineral water) and a ta...
A Meaty Adventure - 05/Oct/2010 07:21 - 5175 days ago
Normally I am frustrated by the fact that I can only get meat in the local cafes and not vegetables but yesterday it was just th...
Christmas came early... - 01/Sep/2010 12:48 - 5209 days ago
Whenever I go to Nancy's house it always reminds me of Christmas. ( I think this is probably because we celebrated such a fantas...
Wading through rivers to buy candles... - 25/Aug/2010 06:16 - 5216 days ago
Last night I got into the house just in time (or so I thought). No sooner had a shut the door but the heavens opened and the mos...
Fantastic Trek in Tigray - 14/Aug/2010 07:42 - 5227 days ago
I've just come back from a 3 day trek in the Tigray Mountains with TESFA and I think it may be the most beautiful place in Ethio...
summer to november in 25 hours... - 29/Jul/2010 13:29 - 5243 days ago
I just returned to Ethiopia after 5 weeks of almost perpetual sunshine in England. It was amazing! ... I don’t remember ev...
glad to be back - 29/Jul/2010 13:29 - 5243 days ago
Despite the rain in Addis it has been great to be back in Ethiopia. I think it was pretty easy to take for granted I was living ...
distractions... - 31/May/2010 08:13 - 5302 days ago
I realise I have been a bit useless recently at updating my blog. My mind has been a bit preoccupied by two things in the ...
off to market... - 24/May/2010 11:55 - 5309 days ago
On Saturday’s I often go to Market. Ambo Market is about 1 mile from my house and involves going up and down a hill so it ...
NOT an Ordinary Day... - 11/May/2010 04:26 - 5322 days ago
Friday 6thMay,Friday wasn’t a typical day by any stretch of the imagination. I woke early to listen to the UK Election New...
new meaning...new words - 26/Apr/2010 13:52 - 5337 days ago
Ethiopian’s do seem to have created their own special variety of English. Understandable really due to the general lack of...
My Job: a Summary. - 15/Apr/2010 05:12 - 5348 days ago
I realise that I have hardly mentioned my job since being here and it is probably about time I gave an update. My job this year ...
MEAT AND VEG... - 11/Apr/2010 10:32 - 5352 days ago
A traditional English roast might include meat, potato and two veg.‘Meat and Veg’ are often the first things you thi...
Cement, Electricity and Books! - 06/Apr/2010 15:05 - 5357 days ago
Cement and Electricity are intrinsically linked it seems. I hadn’t quite appreciated it before but cement factories need e...
Melkam Fasika! - 06/Apr/2010 04:43 - 5357 days ago
Happy Easter!Easter (Fasika) marks the end of a 55 day fast in Ethiopia where the Orthodox Christians have abstained from any an...
Tough on Clothes... - 06/Apr/2010 04:42 - 5357 days ago
Linen trousers are probably the best things for the hot sunny days here in Ethiopia but being so thin you can’t expect the...
Greetings! - 06/Apr/2010 04:40 - 5357 days ago
Ethiopians love their greetings! I think I mentioned before that I shake hands with more people in the average day in Ethiopian ...
bad timing... - 25/Mar/2010 05:22 - 5369 days ago
I think I mentioned several months ago that I was applying for a grant from the bandaid charity to build a library in a local pr...
power on? power off? - 18/Mar/2010 08:13 - 5376 days ago
Recently we have been having a lot of power cuts. Last week it was pretty much every other day for 12 hours at a time and some n...
The Treatment Room - 17/Mar/2010 04:09 - 5377 days ago
Tonight, some friends took us somewhere new to have a drink. It was like a little secret hideaway... you’d never know it w...
If loving you is wrong... I don't wanna be a rock! - 15/Mar/2010 08:43 - 5379 days ago
This and may other delightful lyrics entertained us on Friday night as we went to hear a live band play in Addis. They were adve...
Things that have made my heart melt in the last week... - 09/Mar/2010 06:42 - 5385 days ago
· The beautiful music played by a lovely night guard on his Kirar (t...
isn't it ironic...don't you think?! - 04/Mar/2010 09:15 - 5390 days ago
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife!It probably isn’t ironic at all... whenever that Alanis M...
Hippos, Pterodactyl and Football... - 24/Feb/2010 11:43 - 5398 days ago
Last weekend we went to Awassa to see the last few days of the Inter-University Sports Festival. My line manager was on the orga...
'Road Safety is No Accident' - 24/Feb/2010 09:53 - 5398 days ago
‘Road Safety is No Accident’ is the slogan found at the bottom of every weekly update from VSO Ethiopia. Along with ...
Addicted to Soup - 11/Feb/2010 14:02 - 5411 days ago
I don’t know why I never made soup before–crazy! I guess in England it is easier to just buy it readymade but really...
Giant Moles - 11/Feb/2010 14:02 - 5411 days ago
Today I came back from work to be greeted by what looked like about 30 giant mole hills on the dirt road leading to my house. Ea...
Homes Sweet Homes - 11/Feb/2010 14:02 - 5411 days ago
Living as a volunteer you expect to be living in fairly basic accommodation, although our accommodation is often considerably be...
Fair Ferenge Fare?!! - 02/Feb/2010 13:48 - 5420 days ago
Recently I went to Gondor, with my family, to visit a VSO volunteer friend working as a Physiotherapist at Gondor Hospital. Gond...
Things people have said that have made me laugh today... - 26/Jan/2010 14:27 - 5427 days ago
I love the way that many Ethiopian’s miss out important words in sentences or rearrange words in a sentence so that they h...
La Bella Lalibella - 25/Jan/2010 12:23 - 5428 days ago
Lalibella was incredible. I went for 2 days with my family last week. Although Lalibella is indeed‘beautiful’ its na...
because I couldn't have said it better... - 25/Jan/2010 10:28 - 5428 days ago
here is a link to my friend Nancy's latest blog entry. It is about the funny way ethiopian's 'command' you do to things...http:/...
The beginnings of a social life... - 04/Jan/2010 14:59 - 5449 days ago
For the first time since I got here I would say that last week I finally felt like I had a bit of a social life in Ambo. This we...
Battle of the Bulge... - 04/Jan/2010 14:59 - 5449 days ago
Since I arrived I have been putting on weight at quite an alarming rate! I have been finding this quite depressing as I have bee...
Jamie's Christmas Crackers - 30/Dec/2009 12:36 - 5454 days ago
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The Sheraton - 28/Dec/2009 15:43 - 5456 days ago
We had another lazy morning doing the crossword and then Nancy, Trish and I decided to walk to the Sheraton for a boxing day tre...
Christmas in Addis - 28/Dec/2009 15:17 - 5456 days ago
I had a most magical Christmas in Addis this year. It was one of those great times where you are so happy you can’t possib...
back to the future... - 28/Dec/2009 14:52 - 5456 days ago
You’d think after 3 months I would be used to the different way Ethiopians tell the time. However, I just seem to get myse...
A Christmas Party?? - 28/Dec/2009 14:52 - 5456 days ago
I guess it should have been obvious...with 25 of them and only 1 of me...that Ethiopian Culture was always going to win when I i...
It's beginning to feel not at all like christmas... - 21/Dec/2009 14:10 - 5463 days ago
Four days until Christmas and I’ve never felt so unchristmassy. I spent most of last week in Addis where I was at least ab...
RAIN AND HAIL! - 12/Dec/2009 08:04 - 5472 days ago
It is raining cats and dogs (or donkeys and camels perhaps would be more appropriate) outside at the moment. The sound of the ra...
University Challenge... - 11/Dec/2009 08:50 - 5473 days ago
When I was at university I remember my lecturers telling me that, in our final exams, if they only saw the information they had ...
Happy Camper - 11/Dec/2009 06:03 - 5473 days ago
I had a very exciting moment this morning when I realised I could see my own breath– it was that cold! No doubt by the aft...
Banks and Bureaucracy and Being Called a Liar. - 04/Dec/2009 14:39 - 5480 days ago
I have been trying to get a bank account since I got here. The bank just doesn’t seem to want my money. I guess I can̵...
silly questions... - 03/Dec/2009 05:52 - 5481 days ago
Sometimes I feel like walking around with a big billboard on me saying‘fine, thank you... how are you?’ I reckon I a...
It's Official...I'm Fat! - 03/Dec/2009 05:51 - 5481 days ago
You may remember that I decided to start up a small English social club for secretaries at my home which very quickly turned int...
Bread Shop Education - 03/Dec/2009 05:51 - 5481 days ago
One thing I really love about it here is that they reuse everything...nothing goes to waste. A particular example of this is tha...
calling names... - 03/Dec/2009 05:51 - 5481 days ago
I am called different names every day. I have been trying to decide which I prefer. I’ve decided I really don’t like...
A Hair Cut - 01/Dec/2009 06:34 - 5483 days ago
While I was in Addis (the weekend before last) I decided to get my hair cut. Most people go to the Hilton to do this as they hav...
Evening Routines... - 01/Dec/2009 05:57 - 5483 days ago
Recently I have developed quite a regimented but comfortable evening routine. After I’ve cooked, eaten and washed the dish...
The Strangest Thing... - 26/Nov/2009 08:32 - 5488 days ago
I had a most bizarre experience on Saturday. My line manager within VSO sent me a text message which read,‘no sorry that i...
It is not rocket science... - 25/Nov/2009 05:49 - 5489 days ago
During our‘in country training’ (ICT) the director for‘Save the Children’ Ethiopia gave us a talk about ...
The Great Ethiopian Run! - 24/Nov/2009 10:46 - 5490 days ago
I didn’t do it. I wish I had. Most of my friends in VSO did it as did as well as about 30,000 other people! I did at least...
cars - 19/Nov/2009 09:54 - 5495 days ago
I was really surprised the other day when I found out it would cost half my monthly salary to hire a car for the day (not includ...
Food Glorious Food! - 13/Nov/2009 08:59 - 5501 days ago
Much to my dismay I seem to be putting on (a lot of )weight. It seems especially wrong when there are reports of an impending fa...
Time Management... - 11/Nov/2009 14:26 - 5503 days ago
I have finished teaching my second session on time management. The first was to the majority of the HDP group (about 18 people) ...
Things that have made me laugh in the last week... - 10/Nov/2009 06:29 - 5504 days ago
After a less than cheery account of a funeral I thought I’d write a few things that have made me laugh in the last week to...
A Funeral. - 10/Nov/2009 06:29 - 5504 days ago
Thursday 5thNov, Today I had the opportunity to learn more about the Ethiopian culture but unfortunately under...
A PERFECT DAY! - 01/Nov/2009 09:21 - 5513 days ago
Saturday 31stOctoberIt started off slightly earlier that I might have wished as I got up at 5.30 to make sure I had time to make...
SLEEP DEPRIVATION! - 26/Oct/2009 08:48 - 5519 days ago
My sleep deprivation comes from an unlikely source... the local church. I think the local priests have the attitude that&#...
Have I bitten off more than I can chew? - 23/Oct/2009 06:51 - 5522 days ago
Today was quite manic! I somehow managed to organise things so that everything came at once! This morning I visited 2 local scho...
Some things I will never be able to say... - 21/Oct/2009 08:57 - 5524 days ago
Everyday my colleagues (led by Ato Solomon) try and teach me new words and laugh hysterically at my pronunciation. I am definite...
''TARA, I THINK YOUR ENGLISH HAS IMPROVED THIS WEEK...'' - 19/Oct/2009 09:17 - 5526 days ago
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LOTS OF RAIN BUT NO WATER! - 15/Oct/2009 15:24 - 5530 days ago
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COMING HOME... - 12/Oct/2009 12:30 - 5533 days ago
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YOU... YOU...FERENGIE... - 05/Oct/2009 15:32 - 5540 days ago
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Home Sweet Home - 30/Sep/2009 08:55 - 5545 days ago
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A Cultural Lesson - 17/Sep/2009 19:16 - 5558 days ago
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I've arrived! - 13/Sep/2009 07:44 - 5562 days ago
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All My Bags Are Packed ... I'm Ready To Go... - 10/Sep/2009 15:30 - 5565 days ago
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muddled mind... - 23/Aug/2009 16:45 - 5583 days ago
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Training to teach me the skills I need to train teacher trainers... - 10/Aug/2009 18:13 - 5596 days ago
... now there is a tongue twister for you! I'm currently about half way through my SKWID (skills for working in development) cou...
Speeches and Gifts! - 19/Jul/2009 11:16 - 5618 days ago
This last week has been incredible! I'm sure reality will hit in soon and I'll feel very sad that it is all over but for now it ...
Farewell Fundraiser at Zen City - 13/Jul/2009 21:36 - 5624 days ago
A hugethank youto everyone who turned up tonight! It was really lovely to see you all and I appreciated the fact that you muster...
Ethiopian Utopia - 13/Jul/2009 10:37 - 5624 days ago
When trying to search for my blog online I realised that I had spelt Ethiopia wrong and instead had written 'tarasethopianadvent...
E-mail blogging test - 12/Jul/2009 21:14 - 5625 days ago
Just found out I can't access blogspot in ethiopia and am therefore testing out their e-mail to blogspot facility. Mmmmm... hope...
1 Week of School Left - 11/Jul/2009 11:12 - 5626 days ago
Just one more week... can't believe it has come round so quickly. Just a few exciting things I'm looking forward to this week in...
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