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202 days ago
After months of consideration I have decided to go home. During my deliberation I went back and forth through a range of emotions. So many people back home were proud of me for being in Ethiopia and letting them down was no easy choice to make. Everyday I had to make the choice to stay [...]
219 days ago
I make a total fool of myself every day at least once a day. Whether it’s tripping and almost eating the ground or accidentally saying Dehna nesh? to a man instead of Dehna neh? Mistakes however are great ways to learn and make friends. A lot of Ethiopians know more English than they think they [...]
224 days ago
I’ve apparently become so relaxed that electrical fires cannot get a rise out of me. I was at Liz’s (the new IFESH volunteer who will be teaching at college, what’s IFESH you say? I say you have google ) apartment and we were making dinner. She bought an extension cord in Addis Ababa for 100 [...]
232 days ago
Before I came here I thought I didn’t have any expectations about what this experience would be like. The reality of that is I had many expectations and none of them have turned out to be true. I expected to be teaching a English class, the reality is I’m working with English teachers in many [...]
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