I Love Fridays

I never thought I'd be saying this again. I definitely way prefer having my weekends on Friday, Saturday and Sunday rather than Thursday, Friday, Saturday, as I did in Egypt.

Thursday, although the last day of the week did not feel like a Friday, and Saturday, although the last day of the weekend did not feel like a Sunday!!!

Friday is the party night, Saturday is the errands and watching movies day, and Sunday is the holy and sitting in the sun reading a book day.

When your weekend is Thursday - Saturday, its all mixed up, and although its a matter of tuning your mind and conditioning yourself to say Thursday is Friday..... you cannot!!!! Cause it just isn't!!! Besides, you cannot have the holy day - which is Friday - in the middle of the weekend!!!! It has to be at the end!!!

Anyway, I'm glad I got my Fridays back, and what Friday's these have been!!!

This weekend's was one to remember. I kept in touch with the Ethiopian friends I met in Lalibela, who are great and awesome and nice and amazing!!! And last Friday, Fetlourk - a totally cool and amazing girl - called me to invite me and my friends to dinner at her house.

Thus Sjoerd, Jens, Femi and me headed off to Fetlourks house, to get the real Ethiopian experience..... and what an experience.

FOOD GALORE

Fetlourk prepared a delicious dinner in her garden, with a big fire, a good mix of traditional Ethiopian and western food and, music, her family and friends and loads of beer!!!

ENJOYING MY BEERS

What a party!!!!

We danced in her little garden, we danced to western music as well as traditional (though the faranjis, including the west African, are still hopeless in this)

FETLOURK AND JENS SHOWING US HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE

THE BOYS DANCING TO TEDDY'S AFRICA SELAME SONG..

THEA HAVING THE TIME OF HER LIFE

And I also got to meet my future husband, who I already proposed to - still waiting for his answer.....

MY FUTURE HUSBAND - BROOK - DANCING TO TEDDY AFRO

I was even given the Teddy Afro CD (Ethiopian popular singer ) as a present from Haptam, a totally amazing guy, who knew I'm crazy over Teddy's 'Lampadina' song and love all his songs. So we also played Teddy most of the night and danced to his songs.

BROOK AND MICHAEL THE AMERICAN EX-AIESECER I MET IN LALIBELA

Michael, the American ex-Aiesecer i met in Lalibella and my future husband
The night ended in two Ethiopian bars, which - YEAH!! had no old white men trying to pick up young Ethiopian girls, and which played good music..... except for the last place we went to which played Ethiopian music - oh well, I'm in Ethiopia after all.

SJOERD AND HIS BEER BOTTLE HAVING THE TIME OF THEIR LIFE

The rest of the weekend is also quite promising.... Dinner at Yens and Sjoerd's house, I have to try out their cook who apparently got training from Castelli - one of the best Italian restaurants in Africa if not the rest of the world.... except for Italy I guess.

Then watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!! YEAH!!! I'll get to see it after all, Yens managed to get hold of a copy, I've been told its not that good but it will have to do, once the Cinemas don't offer anything recent or anything that's not Ethiopian!

Sunday I expect a nice relaxing day in Fetlourk's house smoking Sheesha (she spent some time in Afghanistan so she brought home the Arabic touch) - ahh so I'll get my sheesha here too!!!

Next weekend is the transformation weekend...... from the undeveloped and muddy roads and shabby houses of Ethiopia to the perfect, modern, shiny sky scrapers of commercial Dubai......

Can't wait to chill out with Nermeen and meet up with fellow colleagues from all over the world at the HR workshop......