my house

Furnishing my room

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April 25th 2010
I had arrived in Ambo at around 4.30 on Wednesday afternoon (10 Feb). Tara, my new housemate, met us at the Green Cafe with the news that, that very morning, the local authority had decided to dump huge mounds of rubble in our street, ready for tarmacing. So the road was impassable. Our choices were a 200 metre trudge uphill to the house, or a 100 metre trudge downhill. The fact that I had arr ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia

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Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... ... read more