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News and Research Updates from the Running Across Borders Camp

Although it may seem that all I have been doing is crying over the death of Michael Jackson, singing with world-class athletes, and making a fool of myself… I’ve actually been doing research since I’ve...

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Food: The Reason I Travel Anywhere

For awhile I had managed to eat almost everything that was put in front of me. That included a plethora of meats: chicken, fish, beef, and goat… mystery spicy meat, all of which was eaten on a bed of...

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Team Tesfa

(Here is one of the long-lost blog posts from a couple weeks ago that I tried to post, but the power and internet kept going out!) I have been going to Team Tesfa’s practices this past week and it has...

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WAPI Ethiopia, Word and Pictures: A forum for underground verbal and visual arts

You better believe I found underground Ethiopia. I was hanging out with Nani, Teddy’s sister, and she ends up taking me to this WAPI festival. I couldn’t have been happier. We walked through a mini...

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Kayla Teaches Addis How to Bowl

Oh yes, I went bowling in Ethiopia.  This may have been one of the greatest moments in my life. Teddy had been trying to explain to me all day that we were going to play a sport of some kind later that...

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Coincidence? Luck of the Irish? Ethiopian Miracle.

Since I’ve been here, I’ve been extremely lucky. But one moment made me think about what kind of crazy fortune I have managed to experience on my trip to Ethiopia. I had been taking multiple taxis...

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Quick News update

The infamous chicken was murdered on July 5, 2009. After my trip to Asella with Freya, we came home to find the chicken dead in it’s coop. Freya said that its head was bleeding and that someone must...

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Kayla Leaves Addis… Finally

The first month of my trip was pretty much spent entirely in Addis. For July I planned two trips outside the city to visit running teams in different towns around Ethiopia. My first stop was Asella, a...

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Cheladas, Scouts and Faringes

After I left Asella I met up with Gaby from Washington DC. She’s a counselor at the school that Obama’s kids go to and she has been working with Girls Gotta Run. She was planning on meeting the teams...

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The Best Week EVER: Addis Edition

Here is a quick highlight of my last week here in Addis: 1. I went and visited the Running Across Borders Team one last time.  I collected the letters that the girls team wrote for the Cross...

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