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A Day in the Life, Part I
For months, my mom has been asking me to write about what my day to day life is like here, and given her powers of persuasion (“everyone I know has been asking you to write about it”) it is pretty … Continue reading
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Judging a book by its cover
It’s a warm, sunny afternoon and I am sitting outside on the balcony of my house reading a book about the AIDS epidemic in Ethiopia. Despite having earplugs in to block the noise of the raucous party going on somewhere … Continue reading
A Ferenji in Gonder
I remember the first time I truly felt British when I was living in London – I was riding the Tube after celebrating a friends’ birthday at a pub, and suddenly it hit me that I no longer felt like … Continue reading