Sunday, September 19, 2010


Early morning in Addis Ababa from hotel balcony. I learned today that in Ethiopia the family name is not passed down, just one of the names (first or middle) of the father. As a result there is much more diversity since nobody is labeled by their last name (i.e. Madden=Irish?). I thought this was interesting. Christianity is the largest religion with Islam second.

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  1. Do they not have coffee, or were you laying low so as not to wake anyone? And by the way, Addis has a booming population- at breakfast Friday it was about half a million, 4 million in yesterdays post, and 5 million in your voiceover today. I'd get out of there while you can...

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  2. How dare Facebook not set up a satellite link for Sean as he travels into the African wilderness?!?!? Surely he will perish under these hardships.

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