The Heart Failure Heard Around the World

June 27, 2009

After running a few errands yesterday I came home to find the team taking an English exam. We were planning on having a coffee ceremony after the test, and so I went into the kitchen to begin roasting coffee beans/eating the popcorn that had been made.
When everyone finished the test, Tinbit, the English teacher [...]

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Runner’s High at 2100 Meter Elevation

June 27, 2009

One word can describe my running at the Running Across Borders Camp: Glacial. Every day I wake up at 6 in the morning to go for a lovely run/death march through the forest, pasture and/or asphalt maze.
The first day I did a 30-minute run through the agricultural area near the camp. It was [...]

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Running Team or Comedy Group?

June 26, 2009

I don’t really know what I was expecting to find when I came to the Running Across Borders camp.
I think I expected a group of motivated, quiet athletes who focused on running 24/7. Instead I found a loud group of young people, who were given the chance to live out their dreams and are [...]

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Running Across Borders… Literally

June 20, 2009

After a trip that would put “Fast and Furious 17″ to shame, we arrived at the Running Across Borders camp. It was a cute 3-story house that had just been built, in a small suburb outside Addis.
The rooms were pretty much empty but there were 3, count them, 3 toilets in the house! It [...]

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Kayla Attempts to Break Into the United Nations

June 20, 2009

So I was supposed to have my interview with the executive director of the African Center for Gender and Development in the United Nations on Thursday, but my clearance didn’t go through so I had to reschedule for Friday. Everywhere you go here you have to be cleared to get in. I had [...]

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