So, as most of you know, it’s the holiday season and I continue to be in Ethiopia. This leaves me feeling a bit homesick, but it’s also cool to have 39 other people feeling the same way. On Christmas, Peace Corps gave us the day off and drove us to a lake about 30 kilometers away. It was a nice getaway spot where we did a lot of reading, a bit of exploring, and most embarrassingly a tiny bit of dancing. Unlike most South African dances (which I remember as being undeniably awesome), Ethiopian dances merely over-utilize the shoulders. There is one dance, though, that’s pretty cool where everyone lines up like a congo line (get it, congo?), the person in front having a whip. When the dance starts everyone repeats “sell-em-ay, sell-em-ay” and the person
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