I am fascinated by the world, by all the people and different ways of thinking and doing. But I’ve never gone anywhere. I’d like to go to South Korea. Bizarrely enough, although I have known Koreans (and liked them) the main reason I want to go is because I have fallen in love with the Korean cinema, Sassy Girl, Windstruck, and Cyborg She among others.

Well, here is someone who is traveling and talking about it.

Ethiopia is exotic to me and I’m sure to most Americans. It sounds fascinating.

This is a good essay and I hope you enjoy it.

James Pilant

It has now been more than seven months since I arrived in Africa and I have to say that living here is starting to have a noticeable impression on me.  I have adopted various Ethiopian mannerisms and quirks to the point that a few people in my town now call me Nach Habesha—white Ethiopian.  For instance, I now clap loudly at restaurants to get a waiter’s attention. This is something that, having worked in the service industry for a decade and a h … Read More

via This African Life