Comments | tiniago: are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

tiniago

are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

Jun 20, 2008 11:49

Helloooo. It's fast receding into the mists of time, but I feel a bit guilty that I didn't manage to say anything very cheerful about Ethiopia. It's rather a bugbear of pretty much everyone who ever goes to Ethiopia that all people tend to know about is the 1987 famine and TV coverage and Bob Fucking Geldof, and they get a bit shrill about how IT'S ( Read more... )

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soupytwist June 21 2008, 14:45:41 UTC

Oh wow, what amazing pictures. Wow. *flails*

(Am I right that Ethiopian culture gave the world coffee? Cause if so they get uber credit for that, too.)

tiniago June 23 2008, 09:34:40 UTC

*swirls you* IT IS AN AWESOME PLACE. AWESOME. And YES, you are quite right, they DID give the world coffee! There was a coffee bean on the flag/symbol in the town square, only we thought it was a surfboard for the first week, then we thought maybe a surfboard would be a weird symbol for a landlocked country. Oh, the coffee they drink, OH. It is the rules that they have to make it from scratch from green beans in front of you and it comes in TINY CUPS with LOTS OF SUGAR and people have coffee ceremonies like billions of times a day where you all sit around and DRINK DRINK DRINK the tiny cups while they burn PINE-SCENTED INCENSE and LOITER and DRINK MORE COFFEE. <333

beebee852001 June 23 2008, 05:26:56 UTC

Those church pictures are amazing O_O

tiniago June 23 2008, 09:30:18 UTC

*bites you* THEY ARE PROPER WEIRD. They dug them out from the top down. Ceiling to floor. IT IS VERY ODD. I am quite willing to believe that angels were involved. Also, they're still used as active religious centres, BOY ARE THEY. And people go on pilgrimages there. And there are lots of priests, some of them wearing sunglasses and some of them asleep and some of them posing with relics. IT IS ACE.