It is really hard here to get in the holiday spirit. It has been mainly sunny and pleasant for 2 months and there is no christmas decoration (or menorah) to be found anywhere, unless you check the 5 star hotels like Hilton and Sheraton.
Ok, so there was a politically correct ‘december holidays’ concert at school and the constant chatter of ‘going home for the holidays’ is all over the expat community …
I still do not feel it, this will come when I get out of the airport in Frankfurt in a few days, feeling cold and hearing x-mas music all over the place :)
Happy Holidays everyone …
The Ethiopian christmas btw. is on Jan. 7th. And no, there is no tree.
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e·piph·a·nyiˈpifənē/ noun/ 1. the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi (Matthew 2:1-12).
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Time to move on ...
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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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Here comes the flood ... Local school kids on their way home.
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