Our piece of Time Square is the new KID in town is this BIG SONIC Screen located in on the far corner of Meskel Square. The presence is very timely just in time for the World Cup. Every bar, restuarant, Tej bet and Cafe hooked or Occupied the public for 90 minutes of ball rolling for 3 weeks of Foot Ball.. and Meskel Square was no exception. Game nights were occupied with city residents parked on the sides ever since this Huge screen came into place. Top of Buses, Taxi's, personal cars were all used as lounging space for game nights . Now all the hoop-la has calmed down since last weeks ITALY's victory over FRANCE that the fate of the Screen is not known.. Until then ADVERTISEMent anyone??? Meskel Square blog did a piece on this as well for more pictures and commentaries.. Until then Flickr On for the new pics!!!!

QURT (Pronunciation Key (Qurt)
n.

1. The edible flesh of beef or goat, especially that of mammals as opposed to that of fish or poultry. Served raw accompanied with hot awaze peppers mixed with mustard sauce.
2. The process associated with the cutting or slicing of edible flesh endemic to Ethiopian eating habits and cultural practices.

[Modern Ethiopian mequret]

What the fac--TOR you ask.. Well having been to so many occasions in Addis the one thing you realize is that there is a lot of meat everywhere. Meat hear and meat there, ox hear , sheep there and so on so on.. At the same time there is a wide consesus of complaints of how meat has become an expensive commodity. Yes commodity because it gets exported to other countries like coffee,and the country is suppose to make money out of it. Now you would assume we must have plenty of beef going around that we might as well ship em out and at the same time make everyone happy at home but no the price of beef has increased from what I have seen 3 years ago..The price of lamb sky rokected to Mars when Chicken on the other hand hmmm. lets say "tenbun telwal" when it jumped from 28 birr to 8 birr .. Because of a wide spread chicken paranoa that is still afflicts everyone since Easter , lucky for the chickens no one dares to eat them.. Maybe the Chinese calendar got the animal all wrong when they said 2006 is the year of the dog. Speaking of dogs emm where should I start.. But I will save that for the next issue.. Regardless of all the whining, people still dine on good quality 'qurt'. Wheather you go to Senga Tera, or Haya hulet. All the places that serve you beef and its various kind are always full. Kind of makes you think , well maybe it isn't quit expensive as people make it to seem be. From what I have noticed the best and easiest way to treat a large mob of people is to go hop around to the nearest tebs bet.. and everyone will love you for it. Well before you run out of it go get your shareNOW!!