jigeddy jig . . .There’s also some quote about travelling and returning home again to know the place for the first time but nether the Columbia Granger World of Poetry nor Google is being very helpful about it right now and I am going to be a lazy and jetlagged excuse for a librarian and [...]
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Just posting a quick message to say I’m on my way home. Mom and Lisa, I’m not sure you got the messages I left for you since my phone card was acting funny, but I should be home Saturday about 11 AM if my flight plans go well; there was a delay with my initial [...]
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I said goodbye to Gracian, Steve and Vimbai last night (the breaking of the Fellowship!). And since it had calmed down enough that I was able to go into the city I managed to pack in a lot of sightseeing and shopping. The Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Elisabeth Giorgis, who was recommended [...]
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I figured I’d better get some of this down before I forget in the whirlwind of travel; the next few posts (depending on how much Internet time I have left, will be pallceholder posts. The last day of the workshop went off well, and we closed out the round of workshops with a celebratory dinner [...]
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As the second day went on, we actually gained more participants–three new guys and a woman from Addis. It’s all gone well despite a few technical glitches, and we are heading into our third and last day.
I figured I’d take a moment to detail a few of things I’ve learned along the way as far [...]
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So the ones below are of the campus (the middle one is of the guesthouse–the room on the corner is where I am staying–and the one of the walkway is the path leading to our training room). I’ll stop with a few flower and cactus pictures and one of my sitting room. Steve has generously [...]
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Steve has taken some really excellent photos that I wish I could send (he’s an excellent photographer as well as darts player; he totlly killed at darts last night when we were playing this game called “Cricket” (loads of fun, esp. with beer:), but I think you all are going to have to make [...]
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So now we’re waiting until quarter past 9 to see if we’ll actually be having the workshop. The opposition called a general stay-at-home strike for this whole week so public transportation is difficult (the state-run buses are running I heard, but the taxis aren’t and youth are stoning privte cars on the road in town). [...]
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Just a few notes to myself from my Bloglines account so I don’t lose them:
Thought son what you want to be remembered for from Pter Drucker’s “My Life as a Knowledg eWorker” http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/05/12.html#a1202
Also “Individuals in Public Spaces”: http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/03/18.html#a1526
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Just a few notes to myself from my Bloglines account so I don’t lose them:
Thought son what you want to be remembered for from Pter Drucker’s “My Life as a Knowledg eWorker” http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2004/05/12.html#a1202
Also “Individuals in Public Spaces”: http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/03/18.html#a1526
gakked from Mathmagenic
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