A few words from Spice about her yellow Ethiopian scarf, and scarf wearing in general. You get a sense of how she talks. (Although she is more verbose when not being taped. Aren’t we all…) She got this scarf at the women’s weaving cooperative near Entoto mountain, in Addis Ababa.
Of all the strange places in the world, I finally bought my very own injera pan in… wait for it… New Norway, Alberta. Look it up on google maps and you’ll know why I was surprised.Â
Jrock and I were taking a round-about way home, wandering through the secondary highways looking for antiques, when we pulled [...]
A friend posted a great link on one of discussion boards all about Ethiopian nutrition and medicine. This excerpt is from a research report entitled “The Traditional Foods of the Central Ethiopian Highlands” .. it goes on to have a detialed desription of the preparation of injera, descriptions of foods and spices… it’s a delicious report! [...]
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Well it isn’t the Naramata Bench if you don’t do a little wine tasting, now is it?
We did slip away to see a few wineries… our favourite that we tasted at was La Frenz - everything was good. Somebody there obviously knows what they are doing.  And the prices were great. Kettle Valley had respectable wines… I [...]
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Harambee was a chance for the girls to spend some time with their new and old friends… I found they did more socializing than I did - maybe in future years I’ll get a chance to relax a bit more. But it was neat to see.
Sugar, in typical fashion, hung out with her Swazi friend [...]
I thought I would break up the pictures from our week at Harambee thematically, instead of by day or something. After all, it was a jam-packed week of activities, friends, learning and winetasting!
For those of you who don’t know, Harambee is a family camp in its 16th year, for families with children of African heritage. [...]
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I have been following Darrell and Jess’s lovely story about their twins from Ghana for over a year now. It broke my heart to read a few weeks ago that they had, after 6 months in country with their babes and passing Ghanaian court, returned home with empty arms. Mary and Martha, those lovely little girls, [...]
Only 163 people have seen this beautiful video of Ethiopia - the videography is stunning! So let’s make it many many more…
It gives me such warm memories of the bright, colourful dusty Ethiopia I got to know.
In celebration of the world cup, I thought I would post K’naan’s lovely song “Wavin’ Flag.” The girls love it for its beat - I love it for its lyrics. Nona, this is also for you - it can be your favorite modern song - remember listening to it on the way to soccer practice?
First, [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been getting more involved in supporting Faya Orphanage in Ethiopia. For those of you who haven’t heard much about this great home for HIV+ and HIV- kids in Adama, Ethiopia, you can see pictures in my previous post or on the Faya website. In the past, I’ve organized a [...]
I’ve been setting aside clothes and collecting items to be sent to Ethiopia in a container over the next couple of months. The girls know I’ve been doing this but have’t paid much attention. But last night we were talking about how lucky we are as a family, and how lucky they are to have [...]
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We learned last week that two directors from YMCA Ethiopia were going to visit our preschool today. They are touring BC YMCAs as part of a leadership exchange with YMCA Canada. Another Ethiopian mom and I volunteered/were asked to help organize some welcoming activites, and it was our pleasure to do so.
Today M brought all the stuff [...]
There is a recent article in National Geographic magazine with beautiful pictures… click on the picture below to see more of this remote region in Ethiopia.
Since we got home, we’ve had quite a few conversations with parents traveling overseas to Ethiopia. A couple nights ago I had a great telephone conversation (ok, so I just babbled on and on!) with a lady who is soon off to pick up her daughters. She actually was calling me on behalf of a [...]
