This past weekend was great! All of us staff and students at the course were magically transported to Addis Ababa for a few hours :) During this 8 week course, we're having some evenings, where the different groups from various countries can share their food and customs.
The first of these cultural events was on Saturday night, when the group of Ethiopians organized the most amazing party!
Great food, delicious coffee, and a dance party like no other... and we were all having a great time. I think, at this point in a very long course, everyone needed to let off a bit of steam, so it was great to just dance and sing and eat and laugh all together.
I was very proud, too, because I almost won a contest! All those trips to Ethiopia have paid off, as there was a contest to see how many Amharic words did we know. And I wowed them with my simple phrases... someone, most of which revolved around food :) My competition was a Phonetician with a PhD in linguistics. Most of the words he knew were words that they use in their phonetics class, to learn all those odd ejective kinds of sounds. But according to the Ethiopians, my accent was just as good as Dr. Phil's!
Our prize was the big Hambasha bread (from the picture above), which I then got to serve to everyone else at the party. It was good fun!
The Ethiopian night was definitely one of the highlights of the course, so far!
Of course, the bar has been set very high now, so I'm not sure what those of us from Jb are going to do for our cultural night...
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