Image from Yilud September is the beginning! It is when Ethiopian skies bid farewell to the clouds of the rainy season and welcome the New Year! Daisies, called “Adey Ababa,” cover the highlands in gold. Young girls gather the flowers and go door to door singing the traditional New Year song “Abeba- Ayehosh!“ In Ethiopia [...]
Published by September 20th, 2007 in Current Issues and History.Archive for 2007
After an online discussion a few months ago, a small group of people suggested that we have a social/business gathering…EthioMeetup, composed of local DC area Ethiopian Professionals, is an environment in which people get introduced to each other for various social opportunities. Em, ya it has been done hasn’t it? Well it has, and is [...]
Published by September 18th, 2007 in Shameless Plug and Social.I think resolutions, you know the self-pledges millions of us TRY to keep every year, are bull-shit! Each years beginning, we pledge: ‘This year I will try to lose weight, start exercising, go back to school, pay down a debt, move to New York and become a model.‘ Then we also remember the resolutions of [...]
Published by September 14th, 2007 in Advice and Noteworthy.After the much awaited Millennium chefera in Ethiopia, the next deges has to be in South Africa. On May 15, 2004, history was made as it was announced that South Africa will host the 2010 Fifa Football World Cup. History was also made as I started a savings account. Thanks to a new policy to [...]
Published by September 11th, 2007 in Current Issues.I remember after the cruel never ending month after month of cold winter and short hours of sunlight, I like the rest of the Swedish population used to be determined to experience every minute of the warm weather. As you may not know the sun hardly sets during the summers in Sweden and it is [...]
Published by September 7th, 2007 in Personal and Social.
