QUESTION THAT IS NOT NECESSARY TO ANSWER

The majority of the adoptive parents have the question “will the biological parents want to be in touch with their child or with us?”

I don’t want to be long or to repeat myself. The answer up to now is “yes”. I have seen many families or mothers or other relatives, but all of them keep the child in their mind and they are so happy when they have news about the children.

RED AND GREEN, YELLOW AND BLUE, WHITE AND…

In Ethiopia has start a new fashioh!

In the last few weeks I have notice something funny. Some people has start to wear a new shoes fashion. Here a lot of people wear plastic shoes, and that is not new at all, but now they started to buy two pairs  and to wear one shoe green and the other for example red or yellow. May be some of the people that do this buy two pairs and use one shoe of each color, but I guess that the majority agree with a friend that have the same size to change one of the shoes.

Is it  not funny? May be you can follow the same fashion too

BOMBOLINO BISCUT AND SAMBUSSA

These three ítems are avaliable in every street and place. All of them have something in common, they are cheap, they are fried items. Bombolina has a hole in the middle and is like a donut,  Biscut is  a round fried thing without any hole and normally with a irregular shape, not filled, and sambussa is like a triangle filled with lentils or rice.

When someone is hungry with less than 3 birr can get one of these foods and also provably a tea is sold in the same place. Is a good time to have a break and to have a happy tummy!

ETHIOPIAN QENE

Qene are popular frases that people use to teach the others or to say the daily things with another words… let me make some examples

QES BE QES ENQULAL BEGRU YHEDAL - step by step the eggs run with their legs,  it means at the right time everything arrives

SIROTU YTATEKUT SIROTU YFETAL- if you do it running if you run is going to be destroyed, it means that when someone do something fast is not doing a durable work

YENE TOLO TOLO BET GIRGIDAW SEMBELET-my fast fast house the wall is not a wall. It mans who want to make the things fast is not getting good result.

YEQOTUN EWORDALEW BELA YEBETWAN TALECH-  trying to get the thing I can not get, I lose the thing I had by my side.

BEJ YAZUT WERK KEMEDABE YKOTERAL- having  gold in your hands you wish another thing. Sometimes is easier to wish the things you do not have than the precious things you have with you

THE MEANING OF THE ANIMALS

In every language, I think, the animals are used like bad or good words, in Amharic some animals have a meaning when used to speak to a person, is better to be careful using the words.

WESHA, that means dog mean something like bad person.

DMET, that means cat, normally is used to say that someone is a small person, not important.

GUNDAN, that means ant means almost as the cat.

JEB, that means hyena, normally is used for someone that eat a lot or someone that want everything for himself.

ANBESSA, that means lion, mean someone good and able to do the things well, as the school.

AHYA, that means donkey, normally is someone that don’t like to work.

ASSEST, that means chameleon, is someone you cannot trust.

ANIMALS!

Children normally love animals, if someone wants to teach them Amharic words I think that is a good starting point to make fun with the kids. After it can be performed also the animal voice!

WESHA                      dog

DMET                         cat

AHYA                          donkey

WEF                            bird

FEYEL                                    goat  

  

LAM /BERE                cow/ bull

DORO                         hen or chicken

BEG                            sheep