by kpalana | Feb 21, 2016 | Blog
This small excerpt from my forthcoming book, Free At Last: Live, Love, and Work Abroad as a 21st Century Global Citizen comes from Chapter 1: Bringing the World to You. — When I was firmly planted in my hometown of Swansea, Massachusetts for the better part of...
by kpalana | Dec 20, 2015 | Blog
So I’m about to go to the airport now and will leave this wonderful host of a country. I thought that for my final afri-mation that I would actually post something I wrote weeks before I even left for Ethiopia. It’s an excerpt from a new book I am writing...
by kpalana | Dec 19, 2015 | Blog
I can’t believe it. Two weeks have come and gone and somehow I was not only crazy enough to try and teach animation from scratch in a mere 14 days but I also found students crazy enough to learn and create animation in such a short amount of time. Below are...
by kpalana | Dec 17, 2015 | Blog
One thing I forgot to mention is that one of my poor students, Hermella, got arrested for trying to do her animation homework over the weekend. She was shooting a simple scene of kids playing soccer in a public place. The police didn’t like that apparently and...
by kpalana | Dec 16, 2015 | Blog
I Am With You I’m down to my last few days in “Hope-ia” as my youngest son calls Ethiopia. I will have a busy day helping students with their animations tomorrow so will just post a few photos from the week so far. First up, this is my walk to the...
