Happy New Year 2004, Ethiopia!
Today is New Year's Day here in Ethiopia and the year is 2004...sounds strange, we know.
Ethiopia has its own ancient calendar - called the Ge'ez calendar. The Ethiopian Calendar has more in common with the Coptic Egyptian Calendar. The Ethiopic and Coptic calendars have 13 months, 12 of 30 days each and an intercalary month at the end of the year of 5 or 6 days depending whether the year is a leap year or not. The Ethiopian calendar is much more similar to the Egyptian Coptic calendar having a year of 13 months, 365 days and 366 days in a leap year (every fourth year) and it is heavily influenced by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which follows its ancient calendar rules and beliefs. The year starts on 11 September in the Gregorian Calendar or on the 12th in (Gregorian) Leap Years - like this year.
We had a great day celebrating the new year with friends and even dressed Jackson in Ethiopian traditional clothing for today...
2 comments:
I love how Jackson's curly hair matches yours! Does the calendar differences totally blow your brain, or is it one of those things you just get used to? I think that would confuse me even more than working in publications 3 months ahead of schedule! Pray you're adjusting well!
He is so cute!!
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