Left my mark in Ethiopia...

A couple of weeks ago I got this mail from Jens, a German guy I used to hang out with in Ethiopia.......

"Anyway, what amazed me and what I wanted to write you about: You seem to have left quite an impression here in Ethiopia. One Canadian girl which I didn't know until you left (her name is Laura) told me last weekend that she went to Merkato, and that she was asked by some guys if she was Maltese!!! What do you think about that? She doesn't really look much like you, maybe she has the same skin color and hair color, but thats about it."

What are the odds of a girl being asked if she was Maltese (out of all the other big countries in the world) in the biggest market in East Africa.... My mission is complete - I have left my mark - from now on every tall girl with fair skin and brown hair is Maltese!!!!!!

Ahh I miss my dear Ethiopia and all that comes with it.... the injera and Doro Wat, Dashen beer, kids shouting out 'ferenji, ferenji money money', the friendly people who want to talk to you just to learn about life out of Ethiopia, songs of Teddy Afro and Jonny Raga continuously playing on the buses and taxis, coffee and Kaldi's, Jen's house and Elsa's cooking........