Hi dear friends!
How are you doing? How is the month going? We hope everything is going great.
Grandma is home with us. We cannot be happier than this moment. We all was very excited to see her and we were looking at the door the whole day because her flight was at the afternoon. We all were asking our father and Kal if grandma is here yet again and again because we were so excited to hug, kiss and see her. Then the time was ready that grandma and Helmi come to our shelter. Everyone was screaming, jumping and saying welcome home. We prepare a flower for both of them and Betselot and Nahom give the flowers one for grandma and one for Helmi. Then we stand in line and each one of as huge grandma and Helmi. When we huge them we were saying welcome home, we miss you and we are happy to see you. That moment was very exciting and heartwarming for all of as. Since it was a night time grandma and Helmi went to their hotel and we eat our dinner and went to bed. It is a secret but we all were talking about how excited we were to see grandma for about 30 mints in our bed.
The next day grandma and Helmi come to our shelter (home) and the library team had a discussion with grandma on the system of the library. Then we start working on category and organizing the books and the library. You have no idea how much we enjoy organizing and knowing the library system. Specially the library team was learning and working a lot to finish the library work on time so the library will be lunched on the planed day. Grandma bring us different types of books that we never seen in our life. Some of the books even doesn’t have words that it only have pictures that you can have your own imagination and create your own story, that is really amazing and new for all of us because we never seen a book without words. There is also a book that have limited words but a lot of pictures, there are books that can be used in group like game books, ohhh we forget there are animal or national geographic book that the inside of the book is very different that the animals are actually printed on the book, we have no word to tell you our excitement, all of you open our eyes to see different amazing and incredible things through book, we really thank you for everything you did to send us these amazing books. We also get Amharic and English books together that is also very exciting for us. Helmi also bring us a book her daughter Lilian wrote, it was so overwarming for all of us and we can’t thank you enough. During our library lunch day we all decorated our book mark with different colors and stickers, we learn about the library system, how to take care of books and everything about the library. It was one of the amazing days that all of us will not forget.
We also celebrate July birthday and team Tesfa award day together. The day was celebrated by playing a lot of games, by recognizing all of the winners in all categories and by celebrating June birthday children’s. Then at the end we had Doro Wet with Boiled egg and a soft drink. If you can remember our favorite food and also traditional food is Doro wet and grandma know about it and she organized for us to have a special dinner. We were so happy that day because we all were saying it feels like a holiday. The food was very yami yami and we eat until we become full. Then we dance a lot with grandma and Helmi. We dance and sing and dance all of us together. That was one of the memorable day we had with grandma.
We also celebrate Canada day, it is our tradition to celebrate when grandma come. For Canada day every one of us wear our Canada t-shirt. Our home was decorated with Canada flag, with balloons (red and white). Then we play different type of games with our uncle Tilahun, we also put different tattoos in our face, arm and hand. In the morning we also had a football (soccer) computation between our father team and our uncle team, it was fun and it end zero to zero. During our celebration we have pizza, watermelon and popcorn. We dance, sing and play together. We had the most fun during that day.
Every day we had a group meeting with grandma and Helmi to get to know each one of as more. The group discussion was very interesting because we all get similar question but the answer was very interesting and it was very relaxing time. At first we were a little worried but once the discussion was started we were participating and it was very interesting. Among the question we had during our discussion are what is the happiest day in these year, the difficult or sad day these year, favorite color and why. It was such a fun and interesting discussion.
We hope we share so much of the activities we had with grandma with you dear friends. We were so happy, excited and interested throughout the week we had with grandma. Grandma will show you pictures and videos of all of us.
We wish you to have a wonderful month and stay safe. We really love you all.