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Back at work

Posted in May 12th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in About this blog, Friends & family, Working as a volunteer

Am leaving for the field station again, will blog when I come back.

Talking to my niece in the car (when your mother is a forester, then you too get to go the field station on a regular basis!)

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April statistics

Posted in April 20th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in About this blog

The Top 10 Visiting Countries of this month are:

USA & others
Sweden
Netherlands

United Kingdom
China
France
Germany
Ghana
Norway
Egypt

(I am still wondering: Niger, where are you…?)
The Top 5 posts have been:
1. Baking an omelet in the solar oven

2. When luxury food meets famine food in my solar oven
3. Clouds - out […]

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5 days into the new month

Posted in April 5th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in About this blog

After 5 days into April, the Top 10 Visiting Countries are:

USA & others
Sweden
Netherlands
France
Germany
Ghana
Norway
Canada
United Kingdom
Brazil

The great climbers here are the Netherlands and France.
Niger, where are you…?

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Blog visitors

Posted in March 28th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in About this blog

After having spent a week in Niger, the Top 10 Visiting Countries are:

USA & others
Sweden
Norway
Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland
Tonga
France
Belgium
Mexico

Making their presence known and battling to make it to the Top 10 are:
Australia - Brazil - Canada - China - Colombia - Croatia - […]

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Blogging practicalities

Posted in March 26th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in About this blog, Life as a volunteer

In a previous post, Niger1 asked the following question:
From where do you get connected to the internet your house or cybercafe?
Well, I have two choices. One is to battle the ordinary line, which is OK some days, and hopeless other days.

The other is to go to a cybercafé. We used to go regularly to one […]

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Blog statistics so far…

Posted in March 24th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in About this blog

It’s only been three weeks since I started blogging in my own name, but the average of visitors per day so far has been 130. Ishtar News use to have between 20-30 visitors per day, so it’s considerable change! The ten top countries so far have been as following:
1. US & others
2. […]

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Keywords

Posted in March 14th, 2008
by Esther Garvi in About this blog

A favorite topic of mine has always been… keywords! People write the weirdest things to find you, from “chocolate eating gallop poll 2007″ to “holy cows uganda” - not to forget my personal favourite: “what customs come with the running of the bulls”… Here are the primary keywords and phrases people have typed in order […]

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Welcome!

Posted in January 1st, 2008
by Esther Garvi in About this blog

After two years of blogging about Niger under the alias Ishtar (as I was first called by my little friends in Niger), I have now - finally! - got a space of my own and will from now be blogging under my real name. Which is Esther by the way, or Esta (the official Hausa […]

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