Sunday, March 18, 2007
Got Ethiopian?
I have no intention of hitting the typical resort spots like Langanao minamin. I don’t want to fall trap to the culture of Diaspora Habesh on vacation back home who party incessantly or those who go back and hang out with folk from here.
I think I can easily spend days roaming the streets of Addis … but then I thought to myself … what would Jesus do? Um. Ok. Not. I just had to say that, but I thought to myself … what good is a blog but to ramble on?
I ramble. You ramble. We ramble. Perhaps you’ve some Addis ramblings for the inbound?
Mesgana
Now I think that line of thought is too idealistic. It’s like saying, ‘why can’t we all just along?’ Dang! You can imagine the discussion didn’t get far.
I think educational institutions should only support as many students as they can teach, not as many students as they can reach. And teach they should with quality, where quality should, among other things, preserve one’s identity/background.
Anyway the point of the post wasn’t so much to rant about education in Ethiopia but to mention a dance group called Mesgana (which I’d have ‘spelled’ as Misgana. It’s funny when you can tell a non-Ethiopian person spelling an Ethiopian word. Like ‘
Now Mesgana is quality and identity. Remember Hibre tr’it? Mesgana is hibre tr’it by little people. It’s a troupe of kids aged 7 – 13 who perform traditional Ethiopian dances to raise funds for the education of girls. In their own words:
The Children of
Their tour schedule for 2007 includes DC,
Thursday, March 08, 2007
A Quickie
I was actually going to write an article in defense of Starbucks, but ... bleh.
Great move Starbucks. Now i can have my frappuccinos in relative peace.