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Multicultural Day went really well the other day. Apparently the injera got eaten happily. For the last hour of the day, family and friends are invited to watch all the kids parade in their costumes. Its wonderful to see, and I often marvel at the Korean parents allowing their daughters to come in their amazing [...] Today is multicultural day at my daughters’ school. They’re going dressed in their hand embroidered Ethiopian clothes. Hopefully I’ve had a chance to add a photo to this post for you. I would have written more, but I spent so much time plaiting their hair last night (1 hour each) and making the injera (another [...] We’ve been home from Ethiopia about four months now. I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on our experiences there. I miss the people very much. I miss the food. I miss the slower pace of life. I miss the temperate climate. Next week our girls have multicultural day at school. Despite the fact that [...] Some friends have recently come back from a trip to Afghanistan – as you do! Knowing of my interest in embroidery, they brought back some Afghani embroidered bookmarks for me to see. They are incredibly finely worked, with everything in counted satin stitch, worked by hand. The stitches are miniature! They appear to be worked [...] Today at church we viewed a DVD from friends of ours who are still in Addis, teaching at the same school that we were at earlier this year. Their family is also supported by our church. At the beginning of the DVD was a short promotional bit about the school, and about life in Addis. [...] I am going to go out on a limb here… I don’t understand biscornu. (And I don’t know what the plural for “biscornu” is, or maybe that is plural? If it is plural, what is the singular?) Biscornu are everywhere these days, primarily as counted thread projects. But every time I see some of [...] A new review for “The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion” has appeared on the Country Bumpkin website and in the latest edition of Inspirations magazine. Here is an excerpt: Every time a new embroidery book is published, a huge collective sigh of disappointment emerges from that most neglected group of embroiderers; the left-handers. This book should put [...] Since we have returned home from Addis, we have found that we are seeing some things with different eyes. I guess its part of the reverse culture shock. Some aspects of our culture have seemed ridiculous to us for a long time – like the section of the junk mail catalogues that come in the [...] We got home early yesterday morning. We flew from Addis to Dubai, had a layover there that included 5 hours sleep in an airport hotel – thank you Emirates Airlines! – then from Dubai to Sydney (14ish hours) on an A380-800 Airbus. My nephew (6 years) is a plane fanatic, and the A380 is his [...] On Monday we went out to Debre Libanos Monastery. We had a tour of the monastery and as we were coming out of the building, a funeral procession was entering the grounds. There were many people gathered around the coffin as it came in through the gates. Our girls wanted to know what was happening, [...] |
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