On lazy Monday evenings when there’s really nothing interesting enough to watch on my meagre twenty-eight TV channels, I watch ABC’s reality show ‘Wife Swap.’ I find amusing the ridiculousness of polar opposites butting heads as they try to impose their personal beliefs onto another family. This hour long reality show follows two American families [...]
Published by October 2nd, 2007 in Current Issues and Social.Archive for the 'Current Issues' Category
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.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.Let’s face the reality; there is a huge divide between African Americans and Ethiopians especially when it comes to dating and social relations. Unfortunately in the society that we live in, African Americans get the short end of the stick – they are portrayed in a negative light by people and the media. I’ve heard [...]
Published by August 26th, 2007 in Current Issues and Dating.Have you ever had friends visiting you from out of town, and you decided to take them on a night out only to discover that there is $$ cover charge at the door? Even worse, there is a friggin long line to get in…that’s ludicrous!! In the past few years I’ve lived in the metro [...]
Published by July 19th, 2007 in Current Issues and Social.
