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Rudaba, Farkhunda, Noria, Aysha and Rabia
A post today to honour the young women who study online through Afghanistan Education Action, a United Kingdom based charity that provides learning opportunities where they are forbidden...
Pippa
Mar 82 min read
The School, the Wall and the Power Plant
When I sit at my kitchen table, there’s a unique panorama on display through the window. I think of it as layers of local history...
Pippa
Feb 163 min read
Downs and Ups
Two of the movers headed to the bedroom to reassemble my bed. A good start...
Pippa
Dec 5, 20253 min read
Some toponomy this time
In two days I move to Odos 1878 and I don’t believe a street name has ever presented me with such a linguistic challenge as this.
Pippa
Oct 30, 20252 min read
Slowing down and trusting the process
I liken the past month to a big jigsaw puzzle. So many pieces, and you want them all to fit together perfectly...
Pippa
Oct 17, 20253 min read
The little things
Three weeks ago, I landed in Vienna en route to Heraklion, Crete with two suitcases of clothes and a headful of questions. Mostly, I kept...
Pippa
Oct 6, 20254 min read
Getting my elbows up
We needed entertainers, speakers, a sound systme and an emcee. A venue, a permit and insurance. Did we have to provide washrooms?
Pippa
Apr 9, 20253 min read
Let the Games begin...again
As I check in at my Volunteer Centre I'm also greeting the familiar faces of co-volunteers I got to know during round one...
Pippa
Sep 9, 20247 min read
The Waiting Game
As I gradually learnt, however, the nature of the OFA role is precisely one of waiting...
Pippa
Aug 14, 20244 min read
If this is Summer 2024 it must be Paris 2024
I've picked up my accreditation and my 16 pieces of uniform.
Pippa
Aug 12, 20245 min read
BLAST FROM THE PAST
Yesterday in my beginners' classroom, we listened to a song I first heard 43 years ago...
Pippa
Mar 28, 20242 min read
Athens on the cheap
Here are some inexpensive sight-seeing activities if you are planning a trip to Athens.
Pippa
Mar 16, 20244 min read
What a wonderful world...mostly
The weeks fly by because life, the Habibi Center, my students, colleagues and all things Greek are keeping me busy...
Pippa
Feb 25, 20243 min read
CATCH-UP
It's been a few months since I last posted to this blog so it's time for some catch-up...
Pippa
Jan 14, 20244 min read
My big Greek odyssey
I don't spend all my time teaching or thinking about it...
Pippa
Mar 18, 20237 min read
I packed my bag and in it I put...
This was going to be a list of 10 absolute necessities and then, the more I thought about what keeps me comfortable on these trips, it...
Pippa
Feb 12, 20234 min read
Reflections on a little refugee
While I was in the National Archaeological Museum a couple of weeks ago, I encountered this statue of a small child in amongst some of...
Pippa
Feb 5, 20233 min read
Special moments
First B, from my pre-intermediate class, arrived with a scrolled poster-size document which he unrolled with great ceremony and presented...
Pippa
Jan 29, 20231 min read
On Mondays we do the cleaning...
I always look forward to a return to the English teaching classroom and my first days as a volunteer at the Habibi Center have been as...
Pippa
Jan 19, 20233 min read
Growing Bolder in Athens
At times Facebook Memories has you cringing and there are others, like today, when you see a meme (www.growingbolder.com) from a few...
Pippa
Jan 5, 20234 min read
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