Hi friends!
Hello dear friends, how are you? How is everything in your life? We all are doing great.
The March letter was amazing. Our father Tesfa read the letter for us and he made some ice so that we get to understand how cold the weather can get in Canada. We also put the ice to the outside and see the sparkling of ice with sun it was so beautiful. We learn about keeping promises and discussed about this topic with each other. It is better to say the truth than laying and breaking promises.
In this letter, we want to write about how we all spend our time (beside school) in the shelter. We all get up from bed around 12:30 (please refer to the note at the end of this letter for explanation) in the morning; we love to weak up early to see the early morning sun. Then we go to the toilet, wash our face and brash our teeth. We have a game (computation competition) in the morning of who get to the toilet first and it is always fun. Until breakfast is ready, we will do our responsibility in our shelter like we made our bed, clean our room, watering the flowers, cleaning the compound …etc. then we get ready for breakfast and before we eat we gather together to pray. We thank God for the beautiful day and for the meal we have; we eat our breakfast and wash the dishes. When we done this the time will be 2:00 (8 am) at the morning so we will get ready for school.
Some of us are a morning time schedule students and some of us are at the afternoon, so when the morning students go to school the rest of us start studying and doing school assignments and this is the same for the morning time students to do at the afternoon. We eat our lunch 0:30 when to morning time students come to home and before the afternoon students go to school.
After we done school, we get back to home (shelter), change our uniform, and wash our face, hand and feet this give us a refreshment. Then we will have some rest, games, playing and watching movies…. etc. when the time become 06:30 in the afternoon, we get ready for studying, doing homework up to 08: 00 at night. After we eat dinner, we all gather to pray, we thank God for the wonderful day we had and for a bright tomorrow. We get to bed at 09:30 except for high school students, they will study or doing some assignment.
We always love our days, we love our shelter/ home and everything we have in our life. We are so thankful about our father Tesfa, our mom Kal, grandma Shelley, our friends in Canada. Our life was very difficult before we joined this shelter, our days and nights was very dangers and we was spend our time searching for food or place to stay. We have no words how to thank you. You changed our life and we can see our future brighter than a sun. We love you our friends.
We hope you can see our day in the shelter in this letter. We love and pray about you every day. God be with you and you loved once. Stay safe.
NOTES:
Kal is Tesfa’s wife and is a doctor. Tesfa and Kal live very close to the shelter and they go back and forth (as do the children) between the shelter and their home. Kal is very loving and meets with the older girls every week to provide motherly discussions, support and guidance. Kal provides regular check ups for all of the children. Hearts for Ethiopia provided medical tools and equipment for Kal to be able to check blood pressure, vision, reflexes, temperature, etc.
How does the clock work in Ethiopia? (I have been many times and I still don’t get it 😊). Almost all Ethiopians use a modified 12-hour clock system. The daytime cycle begins at dawn 12:00 (6:00:00 AM EAT) and ends at dusk 11:59:59 (5:59:59 PM EAT). The night time cycle begins at dusk 12:00 (6:00:00 PM EAT) and ends at dawn 11:59:59 (5:59:59 AM EAT). The reason behind this type of clock is because they are very close to the equator and daylight does not.