Happy Ethio B-day!
Feb. 14th | Posted by Nicky
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We are so very lucky – at the girls’ pre-school there are five families from Africa, including one Ethiopian family.
We got invited to their son’s birthday party today, and it was so great. There were 5 or 6 Ethiopian/Eritrean families there, as well as a Kenyan family (the only one we had met before. The girls were a little overwhelmed at first but they did really great and had a marvelous time. As for Jrock and I, well, what a treat. Great Ethiopian food, real coffee (which I helped roast on the stove!) and we got to meet some really neat people. A couple of the ladies I think I will meet for coffee again, including the B-boy’s mom. SUCH a small world – we live a few blocks away from each other and she’s like a sister to one of the ladies I got to know really well in Ethiopia. Amazing.
I didn’t have permission to post adults’ faces, but here are a couple of semi-anon pics.
Okay, I am SOOOOOOO stinkin’ jealous of you guys right now! You are so lucky to have Ethiopian/Eritrean neighbors! I can’t believe you had a real coffee ceremony too.
I think I may talk to my husband about moving to your town! lol
Yup – we are pretty lucky! Especially since there aren’t many of them
Kelowna is pretty durn “white” – but we’re lucky that there are quite a few Caribean people living in our neighborhood, and you do see more people from many continents when you go to the grocery store, as opposed to most of demographically homogeneous Kelowna.
I think that is absolutely amazing that you could find yourself at that kind of diverse bday party (and that you would find a connection to someone that you met in E!). I think it will take some work to find something like that here (Although I am sure it exists in pockets). A
PS. Emily don’t even think about leaving me – I can learn to make coffee