Easter holidays –
at last ! After a stressful couple of weeks with the school bus and its crash (
still not solved ! ) at last we are on holiday !
Ethiopian Easter started on
Friday and it is Easter Sunday tomorrow. As a result, the streets are full of
ladies with live chickens dangling from their hands, ready for the traditional
dora wot. This dish predominately comprises of onions and chicken , with the
ladies ( men in Ethiopia don’t cook ) having chopped mountains of onions for the past couple of
days and then starting the slow cook of the dish this afternoon.
On Easter
day, the traditional is that small groups of children go from door to door
singing songs and giving out small pictures that they have drawn for a small
donation . Then after church, everyone has the dora wot in their own house,
before going out to visit others – where you are offered ( and it is polite to eat
) some more dora wot – returning in the evening to your own house for a third
or fourth helping of the spicy dora wot.
With a
dora wot overload, most businesses and schools are closed on the Monday, since
everyone is stuffed full !
HAPPY ETHIOPIAN EASTER !
No comments:
Post a Comment