I celebrated Eritrean Easter today by enjoying ... get this... a cappuccino and pastry at the new cafe in town! There's a new place, rather near by, with a real cappuccino machine and a bakery to make pastries and cakes. And of course, it's owned and operated by Eritreans :)
Jackie and I had a nice cup of coffee this afternoon, and a nice chat with the owner. And of course, I got to use all my Tigrinya and be friendly, as well! The owner also showed us his restaurant which is around the corner. They serve pasta and habesha food (injera, shiro, zigni etc.).
So tonight, since we have people visiting from Nairobi for a workshop that's happening here this week, we decided to take them there. The food was good, and it was about half the price as we pay at our other favorite Ethiopian restaurant. It was a bit comical, though, as their generator kept going on and off! So every once in a while, we'd be plunged into darkness. The funniest part about it, though, was that while the rest of us were laughing and giggling about being plunged into darkness, a certain translation-consultant-in-training kept right on talking about his translation topics without skipping a beat! I think I said three English words all evening - the rest of my words were in Tigrinya to the staff at the restaurant!
After we were stuffed with injera, we walked around the corner to the cafe again where we shoveled some ice cream into all the cracks in the food in our bellies. It was so nice to be sitting around a little table in a real cafe with a display case of pastries, a cappuccino machine spewing out espresso and hot milk, and ice cream, all the while surrounded by Amharic music and people speaking Tigrinya! I wished the all a happy easter (ruhoos fasika) and now have some new friends. I definitely plan on going back there!
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