Celebrating the Ethopian Holiday

 

Most of my group in Yemin Orde.

Last week we had the oppportunity to celebrate one of the Ethopian holidays, called Sigd. It is a traditional holiday for Ethopian Jews. The ethopians danced and prayed in the Amharic language.
If you want to know more about this holiday, this is the perfect website to look at: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/sigd.html. After this, we went to eat an ethopian meal. This consisted of Injera, which is a flatbread that you put different foods in like chicken. Personally, I did not like it at all. It had a weird sour taste to it, but it was still interesting. They also had many other types of food. Everything was delicious, but very spicy. In the Ethopian culture, you are supposed to share everything and eat with your hands...very different from America! Everything was so messy! After dinner, there was more dancing and singing. Overall, it was such a good experience and I learned many new things I never knew before.