New Year's Eve
Again, it wasn't really the new year here (we had that in September - remember the millennium: http://www.terriosullivan.com/blog/2007/09/millennium-madness_07.html).
But people are aware of it and there was a big concert in the Millennium Hall - Aken and Rihanna played at it.
But we weren't there - we got out of Addis, took a 3-4 hour bus journey to Debre Birhan, north of Addis, up in the highlands. We were visiting our friend Gemma, an Irish VSO at the Teacher Training College there. Along with her housemate, Kath, another VSO, Dutch VSO friends Bob & Baukje and various friends and colleagues of Gemma, we had a bit of a new year's party with dinner, drinks and a rendition of Auld Lang Syne accompanied by Andinet on the keyboard at midnight.
The photo here shows all of us in a local bar. It's beside a bakery - Gemma and Kath have discovered that if they go to collect bread when it's ready at 8pm, they can have a g&t while waiting - so we all went to collect the bread that night!
And let me take this opportunity to wish all my friends and family a happy new year for 2008 - I've been a bit lax in contacting you all by email/card/phone, so this is it. And remember, it's the year 2000 in Ethiopia so if you want to step back in time and redo a few things - just come and visit me and D!
But people are aware of it and there was a big concert in the Millennium Hall - Aken and Rihanna played at it.
But we weren't there - we got out of Addis, took a 3-4 hour bus journey to Debre Birhan, north of Addis, up in the highlands. We were visiting our friend Gemma, an Irish VSO at the Teacher Training College there. Along with her housemate, Kath, another VSO, Dutch VSO friends Bob & Baukje and various friends and colleagues of Gemma, we had a bit of a new year's party with dinner, drinks and a rendition of Auld Lang Syne accompanied by Andinet on the keyboard at midnight.
The photo here shows all of us in a local bar. It's beside a bakery - Gemma and Kath have discovered that if they go to collect bread when it's ready at 8pm, they can have a g&t while waiting - so we all went to collect the bread that night!
And let me take this opportunity to wish all my friends and family a happy new year for 2008 - I've been a bit lax in contacting you all by email/card/phone, so this is it. And remember, it's the year 2000 in Ethiopia so if you want to step back in time and redo a few things - just come and visit me and D!
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