Internet in Axum is .80 birr/minute and I’m unable to log onto my mail so Mark and I are once again joining forces to wish you a very merry Christmas.
It is probably about 90 degrees here in the dry 2000 meter sun, and we are struggling with our white faranji skin. It doesn’t quite [...]
Entries from December 2005
December 23, 2005
from zoe…
December 18, 2005
coffee
I remember reading something in this book Matt loaned me, stating that Ethiopia is one of the few coffee exporting countries that actually consumes a large amount of its product. This makes sense, as according to legend coffee was discovered here in the North by a Goatherd one day, as his flock grew excited by [...]
December 11, 2005
deferred to Ethiopia
Sadly Vermont was deferred by Aaron’s car troubles, perhaps two feet of snow, and a general lack of Four Wheel Drive. A Greenpoint Thanksgiving with my Gaffer Shawn Greene and his Kazakhstani girlfriend, and tall Jeff from Iowa, and some Russian friends of theirs. Amazing. It was the shortest Thanksgiving commute ever, sadly ignoring our [...]
