... people like me who didn't value the efforts she took. It was all tinted with the colours of class struggle, instead of constructive criticism in the frame of a team work mentality. Her tone of voice and ...
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My usual bicycle was at the workshop and so was the strong chain that I use to secure it, so I rode another bike to the station and had no choice but to use another flimsy chain. I locked ...
... workday, I saw that the birch trees in the front garden had been chopped into something that looked like a hairless poodle, but I didn't detain my gaze on the details and I refused to inspect any further. ...
A friend of mine was called by her translation agency to serve as an interpreter during a workshop in the town of Dalmine. The University had invited three renowned architects to a brainstorming session ...
... money and finds work more easily, so it was in his interest to be a good student. I hoped this practical aspect constituted the best motivation.
I return to Addis in only two days, a journey that ...
... decided to leave by myself as soon as a bus became available. The first ride to Hana had already departed at 6, but plenty of people were still waiting for a second bus. All were workers from other regions ...
... hilarity of a passenger. In Jinka the bank was already closed, so I had to get a hotel room on credit.
On the square I saw two white faces. They were two Spanish girls who had returned after working ...
... had not passed unnoticed: the first two boys couldn't stand being outclassed by their junior. We were caught up with, and the child was bullied into letting them work. I refused to talk to them and walked ...
... Barring the heavyweight lorries going to the roadwork site, no vehicles were passing and the hours wore on. I walked back to the army checkpoint, and sat to chat with the soldier on duty until an officer ...
... unaware of the difficulties I would face to leave that forlorn town.
It was a Catholic priest with his driver and two co-workers who had set up a mission in the far South. They were not only going to ...
... me to the weaving cooperative and then the potters' workshop. In both places I was offered items at a preposterous price and when I left without making a purchase, the potter lady cursed the boy so vehemently ...
... no buses to Arba Minch, unless I wanted to change at Sodo, I headed to Awasa on the lake shore for a laid-back afternoon. The young man next to me in the bus was heading for Dillo where he worked as a ...
... sugared. As a result of this, when I laid down in my sleeping bag I could get only light sleep: the chat, the altitude, and the caffeine all worked hand in hand.
We got up late, there was not a long ...
... huddling around the fire. Ahmed, one of the muleteers, had returned from Kuwait where he had been working as a herdsman, breeding goats and camels. He had a smattering of Arabic.
Bale, like other Muslim ...
... be a perilous one.
From the junction I walked up to a point where the dirt road forked, and asked two women who were intent on agricultural work. With a smile they pointed to the right, and I started ...
... letting town life flow at an undisturbed pace. Just outside, a bridge over the Awash river spans the gorge. Built by the Italians, who in the late 1930's had the vast country criss-crossed by a network ...
... see people returning home after a day's work. Some were driving their cattle back to the pen, others still fanning the wheat. Big clouds were gathering in the sky, and the rumble of thunder announced drops ...
... vast airport hall had already subsided by the time I emerged from arrivals. Sleeping bodies were lying on the floor or on rows of flimsily padded chairs. They were airport workers off their shift, local ...
I was never particularly familiar with that colleague of mine, and I was surprised when I heard she was retiring. She looked ageless and I took her presence at the workplace as granted, never thinking ...
We met as volunteers working at the same night shelter but we found out that we had already been colleagues unawares when both of us had served, albeit at different times, at the same institution in ...