Each year during the last week of the first term, all the middle school and high school classes at Bingham get involved in community service activities and take part in a retreat of some kind in various parts of Ethiopia. The Grade 7s went to Langano and helped out at the Langano Elementary School, which … [Read More »]
Archives for November 2011
Babogaya SIM Orientation
In September, the new SIM missionaries were required to attend an orientation weekend at Babogaya, where there is a lakeside SIM compound near Debre Zeit, a town a couple of hours drive south east of Addis. The lake is an old volcanic crater and is apparently one of those ones where no one is quite … [Read More »]
Sorry…
… for the lack of updates lately. I have a bunch of posts in draft form, but finding (a) the time and (b) the decent internet connection to get them uploaded can be a challenge sometimes. When I have the time (ie on the weekends) inevitably there is a power cut which means the server … [Read More »]