Ethiopia...Here We Come!: Tickets Booked!

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Tickets Booked!

Friday morning, we received an email from the US Embassy in Addis Ababa confirming our interview on Tuesday September 13th. The final phase of our adoption process is about to be completed. Shira's sister, Andrea, is traveling with Shira to bring Lidiya home, and they leave Friday September 9th. Now, it's real.

2 comments:

It Feels Like Chaos said...: Yay!!! So exciting! After such a long process, you are in the home stretch for sure!!; September 5, 2011 at 7:39 PM
malbectruths said...: So honored to be going again! Can't wait.; September 5, 2011 at 9:50 PM

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Facts About Ethiopia

Ethiopia's official name is Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. It's capital is Addis Ababa. Ethiopia covers 437,600 sq miles, roughly 5 times the size of the U.K..
The total population of Ethiopia is approx 76,500,000. Approx 2,500,000 people live in Ethiopia's largest city, Addis Ababa.
The local currency is the Ethiopia Birr, made up of 100 cents. The official language of Ethiopia is Amharic.
There is one physician per 34,988 people, and one hospital bed per 4,141 people.
Per 1,000 people there are 200 radios, 9 telephones, 6 televisions, 2 motor vehicles, and 0.01 internet hosts per 10,000 people.
In 1993, after 30 long years of war, Eritrea broke from Ethiopia and became an independent nation leaving Ethiopia landlocked without any major seafaring ports.
Drought struck the country from 2000-2002 (first year no crops, second year no seeds, third year no animals).
The story of coffee has its beginnings in Ethiopia, where the coffee plant still grows wild in the forest of the highlands. Ethiopian coffee has earned itself a reputation as one of the finest, most flavorful coffees in the world. The Ethiopian coffee ceremony takes roughly 30 minutes to prepare and consists of each guest drinking a minimum of 3 cups of coffee.
Coffee is critical to the Ethiopian economy (Ethiopia’s only major export). Unfortunately, coffee prices fell 40-60% from 1998-2002.
Per capita, Ethiopia receives less aid than any country in Africa