I was reading an article in The Guardian by Joshua Foer  saying that once he needed to learn Lingala, the language of an ethnic group in the Republic of Congo but his problem was that there were few resources to learn that particular language and that he didn’t have much time to do it. [...]

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I’ve mentioned before that I was writing and illustrating a book for children. I haven’t forgotten about it, the book is finally taking shape! After trying a lot of techniques, I settled for mixed media: collage, water colors, acrylics & pastels. I still have a long way to go to decide [...]

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I wanted to write a short post to promote the beautiful calendars that the Asociacion Tena has made in Spain to collect money for their projects in Ethiopia. These 2011 calendars have beautiful pictures taken in Ethiopia and even when they display the western calendar, it’s very special because the days [...]

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Elizabeth Laird is a British writer who has traveled extensively and written many books. One of her travels took her to Ethiopia, where she went to teach English, and that’s when she first fell in love with that country. Many years after her first visit, she returned to Ethiopia, this [...]

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