Posted in Travels, Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Just got back from this small city, Debra zeit, 45km from Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa, where I live, is quite a metropolitan city (pictures in a previous post). Debra zeit is a smaller city which is a lot calmer with a lot of nature.
My travel company.
It is however here, that I saw [...]
Posted in Thoughts, Travels on May 7th, 2010 No Comments »
It gets dark here pretty early – 6pmish. And since much pretty all the streetlights are dysfunctional (if they exist at all) – it gets really dark. “My crib” is quite a distance (not walking distance) to the market area and the happening stuff. For that reason the last few days have been pretty boring: [...]
Posted in Travels, Uncategorized on May 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Landing in a hot third world country can be overwhelming. The heat, the crowd, the noise all combine to make your experience horrible. Take India for example. I’m overwhelmed by the heat, the terrible smell, the sweaty people, you name it. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is nothing like that. Yes, I met some wierdos, and was [...]
Posted in Thoughts, Travels on Apr 8th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve got this urge of doing something very random and impulsive. It’s not very bad in this case. Well it is, since it might affect my studies and exams. I want to go KL AGAIN! I just came back like the other day (three days to be exact). I was there, attended some great events, [...]
Posted in Travels on Apr 6th, 2010 2 Comments »
After an amazing three days at the Gilis, me and Linus moved towards Ubud, a historical city with a lot of Hindu architecture and culture. I don’t know about that, but the full body massage and the other body treatments were awesome!
Crazy as we are, we decided to climb the volcano in Ubud – [...]
Posted in Travels on Mar 28th, 2010 2 Comments »
Finally posting about recess week in Bali! (almost a month ago!)
Sunday morning (28 Feb) Indians on campus were to celebrate Holi, the festival of colors, on campus. Since I’ve never witnessed this cool thing before, I decided to take part of it. And yes it got ugly:
After Holi celebrations (and me being covered in pink [...]
Posted in Travels on Feb 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Yes, it’s best that some of the stuff that happened there stays there!
Since a lot of us exchange students don’t really celebrate Chinese New Year, a bunch of us decided to fly down and stay there over the holidays. Five days of a lot of swimming, sunning, shopping, eating and a lot of other [...]