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Local Customs: Shoes
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Remove your shoes when visiting a church or a monastery. Often there will be a shoe keeper, who takes care about your shoes so that nobody will steal them!
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Local Customs: Chewing Chad
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Chewing Chad seems to be a wide spread social thing or a habit. Chad is a mild stimulating leave. The youngest and greenest leaves are the best. You put them into your mouth and start to chew the bitter tasting stuff by forming a big ball out of it and keep it for hours. You can see guys with enormous big bloated cheeks. The side effect is that after chewing it for hours you will have problems in falling a sleep but in this case a few Dashens might help! Chad is so popular that during the war the fighting was stopped for a while when the plane with the next load of chat landed!
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Local Customs: Let Me play!
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If an Ethiopian tells you: Let me play with you, then don`t worry (especially if you are female)! He does not want to play or intend to have sex but, he would like to have a conversation with you!
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ClaudiaHirsch Wed Jun 6, 2007 12:26 UTC
Congratulations to your Ethio-comments! I am Claudia from Austria and living with my brother now in Addis Ababa since Feb 07. Please see also my site for additional "beggar-issues", ethics, tips, etc: http://members.chello.at/claudita.hirsch/EthioTips.htm | leonik Sat Mar 17, 2007 05:46 UTC
you're so right about those darned fleas! had it really bad in Lalibela! picked them up from those churches i guess. and I wondered what sawdust was doing on the floor of some buses. thankfully those who got sick managed to hurl outta the window in time! | crewrower Fri Aug 4, 2006 18:01 UTC
your tips about being overcharged and dual pricing on menus could be like China or so many parts of developing world (interesting) I like the way you deal with it. ohh...and the fleas! yikes | Wafro Wed Feb 1, 2006 08:50 UTC
Begging and annoying kids is a common problem in many parts of Africa. But the way you solve the problem is the best and funniest way to interact. Great page GRTZ |
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