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Bonfire for the New Year  
   

Bonfire for the New Year

Tesfaye, our night guard, holding his sticks in the fire.
A New Millennium!

September 16th 2007
Not only is there a different time system in Ethiopia (the day starts at 6am rather than midnight, so that 8am is 2 in the morning, local time), and a different annual calendar (New Year is in September and there are 13 months), but it is also a different year. So, this last week we were celebrating the New Millennium. There was a lovely atmosphere in Addis and Millennium Fever had definitely ... read more
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