Actually not that much to say, just a beautiful and very different ‘moment’.
When I walk to pick up my son from school, I have to wade through this throng of local school kids in uniform. I guess their school day ends 20 minutes earlier.
In general they are friendly, say ‘hi’ a lot or yell ‘ferengi, ferengi’ (foreigner) with excitement. Only on rare occasions some 12-13 year old boys say something to me in Amharic and then laugh theirs asses off when I do not react because I did not understand a thing. I guess they are insulting me, but it is easy to shrug that off with a smile.
More annoying is that they walk 4 - 5 abreast and do not look where they are going, so run-ins are frequent.
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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