One week to start school… The summer has lost its appeal. The children are officially bored. During the summer break Feven and Feromsa have learned to play with each other and not rely so much on me to entertain them. Feromsa will start kinder [...]

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Last night I finally watched the movie First Person Plural. It’s a documentary made by a Korean woman who was adopted when she was 8 years old by an American family. The film narrates her journey to discover her real past, the meeting with her biological family [...]

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For those of you who live in Oregon or SW Washington there are a couple of events coming in the next days related in some way to Ethiopian culture and I wanted to mention them before it’s too late. This coming weekend, families with Ethiopian children will gather [...]

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It’s already August and summer is soon going to be gone. I’ve never been a fan of the season in the first place, hot weather is not for me, but this year I can’t complain much. We’ve been having such a mild summer, only a few hot days so far, and [...]

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