It is a common saying here that the rainy season stops like clock work on the Meskel holiday, which this year was 26th Sept. and the previous 2 years this held true.
Not so much this year. The weather is really toying with me. When I dress up prepared, the sun comes out and I sweat like a hog. And today it did not look like rain, I only had a light jacket on AND my laptop in my non-waterproof backpack … and 10 minutes into my walk it poured out of buckets and I shared some very limited (and barely efficient) shelter with some of those school kids …
Other moments in Addis Ababa
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Time to move on ...
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Winter
The end of the year is nigh ...
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Citizen Journalism, Terrorism
When I was a kid, there were no guards at the school gate, let alone those armed with AK-47s !
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Football, soccer
The highway is my soccer field.
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Commutes
Meanwhile ... And this is the pre-construction traffic!
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Street
To acclimatize to Addis one must first learn to give up control. Failure to do so may result in a total loss of sanity.
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Commutes, Urbanism, Terrorism
Morning commute. Mind you, this is not the country side, this is the city center of Ethiopia's capital!
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Parenthood
"Julius, do you want to watch some TV with papa?" "Shhh, I am reading" ...
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