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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 | By theosym | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
My name is Theodora, I am 32 years old and I’m living in Thessaloniki (Greece). The last year I deal intensively with my favorite hobby: photography. Photography for me is not just a passion is a - deep love - relationship. It's the way to express all ...
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Wed, 21 Nov 2012 | By suri | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Hi,
My name is Ben Hogarth and I have a true passion for travel photography. Normally I'm a television producer in Australia but for the past year I have been living in Africa photographing tribes across 20 various countries within the continent.
I ...
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Mon, 12 Nov 2012 | By insomnikat | Views [266]
The last 2 months have mainly been spent getting an education in bureaucracy and mind reading. I am happy to say that I am now an expert (in bureaucracy)….and I have multiple purple stamps to prove it!
Basically, in Ethiopia you need a purple ... Read more >
Sat, 27 Oct 2012 | By marc-peiris | Views [407]
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Tue, 14 Aug 2012 | By insomnikat | Views [539]
It’s been a while since I last blogged. I'm blaming a combination
of the network in the office being down for about 3 weeks, not being arsed to
walk around the corner to the internet café on an evening (mainly due to powercuts every evening) and it ... Read more >
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 | By insomnikat | Views [760] | Comments [1]
This
week's been ace. Found out that there's a whole other side of town that
I hadn't explored with loads of other restaurants. I've also found a place which sells pasterised milk from cows that live out the back of the cafe(!!!)
so this morning ... Read more >
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 | By insomnikat | Views [413] | Comments [2]
Selam from Ethiopia!! Well I made it here in one piece (physically, not mentally!!) after a 24 hour slog involving 2 tiny planes and one big plane and a 9 hour wait at Addis airport. I was collected by Henok who’s the Skills training manager at ... Read more >
Tue, 29 May 2012 | By eriklang | Views [564]
Ah, Ethiopia…So much to abhor, but much more to adore. I'll have to review my previous entries, because I might have said this about each country I’ve visited thus far, but Ethiopia really has been my favorite destination of them all. ... Read more >
Fri, 25 May 2012 | By eriklang | Views [388]
Leaving Axum after more time than I really needed there, I struck up a conversation with four Americans on my flight to Gondar, a town of around a quarter-million that was also a great dynastic capital and now serves as the gateway to the Simien Mountains ... Read more >
Tue, 15 May 2012 | By eriklang | Views [439]
If Varanasi, India was the most exotic destination I have ever visited, it has now been trumped by Axum, Ethiopia. I wanted to see "real" Africa, and that's exactly what I got…limited or no access to almost every resource, abject poverty, clouds ... Read more >
Mon, 14 May 2012 | By klnjaa | Views [827]
This past Thursday was
sports day as well as my birthday. I was nervous to see how the sports day
would turn out. I have learned with weeks of planning and meetings that things
never go quite as planned. I tried to be as organized ... Read more >
Mon, 14 May 2012 | By klnjaa | Views [748]
In IT the power has been
working really well! We have had six computers that have worked for the full
three hours that we have been in the class. It’s awesome. A miracle really.
Only a couple times in the past month has the power ... Read more >
Fri, 11 May 2012 | By eriklang | Views [342]
Boarding the Bombardier 400 Turboprop in Addis, I was surrounded by tourists, all of us cramming into the tiny craft to see the same thing, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. For the first time in 8 weeks, I happened to come across a fellow state-mate, ... Read more >
Tue, 8 May 2012 | By eriklang | Views [332]
Just over a century ago, Empress Taitu asked her husband, Menelik II for a house beyond the walls of his mountain fortress in a verdant valley with natural hot springs and a comfortable climate. She called this abode "Addis Ababa", meaning, “New ... Read more >
Sun, 22 Apr 2012 | By klnjaa | Photo Gallery
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