Eden

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My name is Eden. I'm 21 years old. I'm from Ethiopia. I arrived in Australia in the middle of 2012. I live in Brisbane which is situated in QLD. Currently, I study at South bank Institute of Technology. I was born on 18th January 1991 in a small city of Ethiopia. Called Dire dawa, It’s located in East Africa. I was raised there by my uncle after the death of my father when I was three years old. 3 years later I started school in Bsrate gebrial primary school. I studied there for eight years until I completed my primary school. Then as a consequence of family problems I and my family relocated to Nairobi, Kenya. We lived in Nairobi for seven years and I continued my education there. Then we got an opportunity to migrate to Australia. I have many hopes and dreams for my life when I finish my TAFE course. I want to go to university in order to achieve my goals. I have set goals. One of them, I would like to study a computer science and Electrical Engineering because I have interests in maths and physics. It is very important for me to receive a good education because most job fields require a decent education. If I don’t have an education, I would not be able to function properly in the work place and I would not understand what to do. So education is the first way to became successful. __olmedia type="file" key="about my self 2.wma" width="300" height="300"__ =Ethipian Meskel celebration Of holidays=

Meskel is an annual religious holiday, commemorating the discovery of the True cross in the 4th century by Queen Elleni (saint Helena), the mother of Constantine the great Roman Emperor. Since then, it has been celebrated every year on 17th of September in the Ethiopian calendar for more than 1600 years old. The most vibrant celebration takes place at “Meskel square” in Adiss Ababa, Capital city of Ethiopia, near saint Estifanos church and also over all the country of Ethiopia. It’s celebrated by dancing, feasting and lighting a massive bonfire known in Ethiopian tradition as “damera”. The celebration of meskel signifies the unearthing of the True cross at the mountain of Gishen Mariam monastery and also symbolises the events carried out by Queen Elleni. According to Ethiopian Orthodox story, Queen Elleni was not able to spot the most probable sight of the cross for the excavation due to the mixed information she found about its burial. But later she got inspired by dream to light up a giant bonfire of wood. In the next day she made a huge bonfire and miraculously the smoke raised up and drifted towards the direction of the buried cross. She ordered the workers to dig in the place where the smoke resided and eventually found three crosses; one of them was the True cross used to crucify Jesus Christ. Queen Elleni then gave a piece of True cross to all churches, Including the Ethiopian church. One of these pieces was then brought to Ethiopia. According to Ethiopian legend, people will shine like a silk and get cured from different illness when they get close to the piece of the True cross. Later, as a result of fear of getting stolen and fallen to the hands of non-believers, a decision was made to bury it at the mountain of Gishen Mariam monastery in wollo region. And as a remembrance, the people started to celebrate the finding of the cross every year. Through time, the religious event has got mixed up with old traditional celebrations for the coming of autumn which is an important harvesting time for farmers. As a result, people started and are still celebrating Meskel as an extended festive of Gregorian New Year which is an indication for the end of the long dark rainy season and the return of sun shine and brighter future. During the celebration of Meskel, the fields are full of flowers especially by the bright yellow flowers, called ‘’Meskel daisies’’, its marked the end of the three month long rainy season and the coming of sun and light. Because the celebration of Meskel have been celebrated in a beautiful weather at the end of the rain season. All people dressed Ethiopian traditional white cloths and carrying a lighting of candle, which is a sign of purification from the dark past and signeting a fresh start to the New Year. The patriarch, priests and deacons dressed in colourful and carrying silver Coptic crosses and some magnificent umbrellas according to Ethiopian traditional Orthodoxy’s church for prayers and blessings. At last the celebration is marked by lighting of a bonfire wood to re-enact the finding true cross and followed by a beautiful display of fireworks that light up the sky which usually attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators face with amusement and admiration

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