Showing posts with label Kagnew Station or Asmara. Show all posts
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Monday, 21 November 2016

I arrived in Asmara in January 1968

I had flown out of JFK airport in New York, along with several of my classmates from the language school at Monterey California, where we had completed a 47 week total immersion course of the Arabic language.
We knew relatively little about Kagnew Station or Asmara, where we were going, but expected it to be an adventure. We had spent several hours sitting in a lounge at the airport with my parents and my girlfriend, waiting for the flight which didn’t leave until after midnight. readmore