Ethiopia

Foreigners has often times asked me what Ethiopia is like. And I have told them that it's a country with 13 months of sunshine, a melting pot of ethnic groups [around 79 of them], is mentioned in the bible more than 50 times, is rich in vegetation and wildlife. I've talked about the rock hewn churches of Lalibella - 8th wonder in the world; Harar-the 4th holiest city in Islam with its 99 mosques and the church of Medhanialem Christos in the middle, the stelea at Axum and the Sof Umer cave.

But I have always felt that this may not draw a clearer picture of my country, the "Christian Island" of more than 3,000 years [that would be like BEFORE Christ, right?!]. So here is what Ethiopia is. It's a country where kids are advised on national tv not to trust people [..and the snake answered the man "trust me, for however evil i am, i can't be as evil as humans"]. A place where children are expected to understand their parents and act accordingly ["you know yourrrr dad"]. And a country where ugly girls can still get husbands [backward! very backward!].

[Individuality is especially sneered at here, homosexuals and all those sexually .. challenged people would probably be stonned to death upon stepping out of the closet -don't come out of any closet pleasethankyou- and all the weirdos round here are dem whities who get shipped to us with wheat from foreign companies like Circus Ethiopia and Terres des Homes Loussane, Switzerland].