Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Little Ethiopia has Class

Attention Los Angeles families! Dankyra Cultural School will be starting a new session of classes in a couple of weeks. I have written about going to these classes HERE. It is a blast. We love it. Here is their Facebook page. This is their e-mail address- dankyraethiopiancs@gmail.com. Come join us!

I was recently contacted by a lovely Ethiopian man named Benyame Feleke. He runs Ethiopians for Ethiopians. This group is another great organization for families like ours. He asked if I would ask our Los Angeles community to take a short survey in order to gauge interest in their program. Here is the link. It takes two seconds.

It looks fantastic to me, and if you are one of my favorite families already involved with Ethiopian for Ethiopians will you please leave a comment describing your experience.

New Additions to The Family.

We have bees again! Yay! New bees, and a new bee foster family! And soon...HONEY!

We also have a new, uhm, nephew? Cousin? Foster child?

Flat Stanley! A visitor from my nieces, Betsy and Abby.

He's been to our favorite pizza place...

 And has assisted us in our Valentine's Day preparations.

Today he is headed to culture class. How do you think his Eskista will be?

Culture Class

Every Saturday, for the past seven weeks, we have been attending culture classes in Little Ethiopia.

We are so grateful that something like this exists. I was always envious of people who lived in cities that had the organization Ethiopians for Ethiopians.

Initially we were going to sign both kids up. It became clear that Melese was a bit too young.

Meazi absolutely loved it. She would talk about it all week. She practiced the dances, and every Saturday morning would pick out her outfit. She would tell Steven exactly how she wanted her hair done, and he would quickly style it.

There were a couple of things that were hard for Meazi. The children's video they watched brought up a lot of memories from the care center. We talked about it after the class.

Melese got a lot out of just being there. We would see him doing the dance moves during the week as well. He seemed to be drumming and singing more too. And each Saturday he would get to see Tunsi. He was very happy about that.

If you are in the LA area and don't yet know about the school, send me an e-mail and I will send you the info.


We are so grateful for this new school.