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How interesting is this Lemlem. I'm sure we are going to learn a lot of things about you and your country. Good luck!

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Hello Lemlem! Is intersting to know that we live both in the past, in the present and in the future as the same time, I mean, you are still living in the 20 th century when you are in your country but we are in the 21 th century when we are in our country. If we could change our lives by a migician touch, you woul be in the future and me in the past. This situation seems a little wild, don't you know? It doesn't matter if we are in the future or in the past, the important is we are here to know each other and learn english with pleasure. Good luck and wellcome!

Hello Lemlem!! How interesting to know that you are seven years behind us.So if we want to feel younger we just have to move to Ethiopia, seven years in my case can make a big difference!!! Where are you from in Ethiopia? I feel so enthusiatic meeting someone from a country I know so little about, this means I'll learn so many things from you. Welcome to our netland. Cheerio, Monica

Hello Lemlem! It is fantastic event that we can hear you because thanks to you I'm sure we better understand your country your culture, your traditions. I'm wondering what the weather is in Ethiopia. I suppose it's much warmer than in Europe. I will your faithfully supporter and I'm cross my fingers for you! Good Luck!

Hello!!! I really keen to hear more about your country, and your customs. I hope as soon as you can you talk about it. Regards.

Hello, Lemlem. What a fantastic thing! I didn't know that. I think it should be good to be born on the 6th day of the 13th month.

It's so interesting! Lemlem, it's the first I've ever heard that there's thirteen months in a year. Could you please tell us something more about yourself? Looking forward to it.

Hi Lemlem sinkineh Nice to see your first blog its very interesting.In english we say 'leap year' to 'pagume'.I am looking forward to know about you. best wishes parul

HI all, My name is Urnaa, from Mongolia and just read about Ethiopian new year which is very interesting. I never know there is 13th mounth somewhere else... in our world Very traditonable .. /sorry about my spelling it may be wrong, that's way i visited this site and happy to join with al of you/ 18th of February is Mongolian Lunar New Year day, so we celebrating across the country very wildly. Sometimes it continues wholl months , people visiting all their relatives and greeting each other.Strong cold chilly winter is gone and first day of spring is Mongolian new year.You can smell the spring in new year of the day.

How intersting having a month with 5 days! Thanks for sharing your practic. In Myanmar Calendar, we have 12 months a year and this month "Tabaung" (February) is the 11th month of the year. Our new year is in April. Regards

Hi my new friend , Lemlem ! Welcome to this month Blog ! How are you ! Happy new year ! Oh my goodness, A Bloger from Africa , It 's wonderful ! Fantastic ! That sounds very interesting , being familiar with , African people , Their traditional customs , their daily life and etc . Don’t forget introducing yourself to us . What are your new year resolutions ! I'm parry from IRAN . In Our calendar , we have twelve month , like Christian 's calendar and every four year we have '' Kabiseh " year . Spring and summer months have 31 days and autumn and winter have 30 days and , end month of a year named " Esfand " have 29 days . In "Pagume " year or " Leap " year , it have 30 days .Our new year is in the begin of spring . Until the next time " au revoir " I wish you a very warm happy new year with your family ! Have fun ! Bye

hi,Lemlem It is nice to read your first blog and I am intrigued by an Ethiopian calendar and millennium. Actually,I haven't had a proper millennium celebration and I still have a chace to make the day special.What a fantastic information you gave us.Thank you and cross my fingers and I hope you will enjoy your time here as much as I do

Dear Lemlem! It is totally new for me, how interesting it is! Do you know when and how the Ethiopian millenium originated? Best wishes, Helen

Helo Lemlem! Welcome as our new blogger! I don't know a lot about Ethiopia. So I am eager to hear about the life there. Maybe I am not the only one who have never met people from Africa. So you have the hard task to present your country to us.Through your eyes the view will be rather different than information in wikipedia or the books. Admittedly,we'll help you with questions.Don't worry! Stay cool! Diema

Hi Lemlem, how are you? I’m sure you are excited and full of energy as a new student blogger. If you’ve followed the BBC blog you know that we are going to ask you a lot of questions, sometimes quite personal ones, but remember, you can count on us! You live in a wonderful, ancient country but exposed to so many threats. How do manage to live in? My interest in Ethiopia started when I read a book ‘Emperor’ by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Polish writer). As you can presume from the title of the book this is about the last Ethiopian emperor - Haile Selassie. Some people say that this is a perfect picture of the Haile Sleasie’s Ethiopia, some say this just Kapuscinski’s one, but all agree that this a masterpiece. By the way, the book was adopted into a play stage and performed in London theatre in 1980 or so. I am looking forward to your next posts, best

Hi Lemlem, I am glad to meet a new student blogger from Africa. I hope that I will learn a lot from you about African culture, people, nature so on. It was interesting to know about an Ethiopian calendar. I am looking forward to your blog. All the best.

Hi Lemlem,How are you? It is a pleasure to meet you as a student bolgger for this month. I certainley belive that you will write many interesting things about your country such as culture, tradtion,history etc. I am a srilankan, we celebrate our new year on 14th of April. It is very interesting that ethiopian's calendar has 13 months. I have met some ethiopians when I went to Canada, they were very pretty people. First we all bloggers know about yourself. I am looking forward your blog tomorrow. all the best kind regards

wow! so... I'm looking forward the new millennium!! Ehehehe!! How do you celebrate it?? I'd like to know it, cos in this way I'll be able to celebrate it as an ethiopian will do!

first of all hi to everybody as this is my first visit to the bbc blog.so, lemlem sinkineh i was really fascinated by ur calender..i've heard about iranian calender but this is the first time about ethiopion calender..so really thank you for the new information and i also think by reading your blog i could gain more knowledge abour ethiopia..the would be great. so, good luck.

Hi Lemlem you did a good job! introducing our own calender. I am proud of you!

Hello Lemlem, As I'm very exited to read comments on your blogs, I enter your blog just after my works over this morning. How interesting the responses they are? I also learnt brief sketchs of other country's traditions from its.I want to hear more from you your country's any other customs, beliefs and daily life. Here I like to correct error in my comment on yesterday. Please read "Tabotwe" instead of "Tabaung" as the name of 11th month in Myanmar. Regards

Hi everyone~! It's interesting to me. Actually we also use 2 calendar; Lunar & normal calendar which uses around the world, so we'll meet another New year day-18th, February,2007 related to the lunar calendar. Anyway, I hope to see the Great Millenium. I'm looking forward to your new blog.

HI.. My name is Bappy. My located in the north-eastern Bangladeshi city of Sylhet. It’s hearing interesting to me about Ethiopia calendar. We are using here two types of calendar one of English and another of our national language Bangla. We also using in bangla calendar 12 months in a year. Now is Running 25 mag, 1413 (7th February, 2007). So I think it also looking to all a new thing.

Dear Lemlem! All your friends on the blog are looking forward to hearing from you , your country and your cultures and your everday life. We all hope that you are fine and safe. Katy/Iran

Hello Lemlem, I´d just like to state my kind welcome to you on the blog as everybody else did. I must say that you had an excellent start and got everyone interested in the things from your country including me. Wish you all the best.

Hello Lemlem, I just found this cool site a few minutes ago while I was searching for some news on the bbc news site. In the Far East countries, a lot of people still use both lunar calendar and the standard calendar. The interesting thing is that in lunar calendar sometimes you get 13 months a year too just like yours and I am not sure how it works but from the past 100s (maybe 1000s) years it hasn't gone wrong. It just makes me think it's so amazing how these people created the "special calendars" in the old age without help from a computer and now people still use it in the modern era...

Hello Lemlem! Welcome! Hope to hear about you every day...! Don't be late! I'm sure that you have a lot of interesting things to share with us. Don't be shy! We are your virtual friends!

Hi Lemlem i am eagerly looking forward to your reply.Where are you?Please write something about yourself and more. GOOD LUCK PARUL

Bravo Lemlem!!! I proud of you for you introduce our millennium to the world.

Great Lemlem! I am proud of you! Please come back to the page! Aderaw

Hi lemlem I wonder where you will be in the millenium celebrations. Good girl!

Lemlem! You said very interesting thing about the millenium we are waitng . I expect a lot of poeple to enjoy uor millenium taking it as thirs.

Sound interesting! if you could tell us a bit more that will be fantastic! Welcome !

I wonder when I hear some respondent saying” it’s being wild to celebrate Ethiopian millennium". Off course, any body has his own right to comment and say what ever he likes, even in our country we are practicing this too. But, the important thing is not denying the truth. It is not the date and year that really matters, but it is the culture, dignity, being independent... you can name it more. We are the only Africans kept our dependency from European colonist and to keep our culture, ethnicity and language (Amharic). Don’t wonder when we say we have 13 months with sunshine, even we have our own letters and numbers. How about now... Rather you better come and enjoy in our Natural millennium. It is on September 11, 2007. The weather condition is very conducive and windy what you call "spring" where you can see lots beautiful tropical trees and flowers, endemic animals and birds, attaractive views in northern southern rift valley lakes barks. Therefore, you are highly welcome to Ethiopia (Abyssinia). God bless you all and Lemlem. We are waiting and Ethiopia is calling!

Ethiopia one of the great countries in the world, it is the begginning of man kind as the oldest humman remain over 3.4 million years old was found in ethiopia. With its diffrent culture, language (over 80),natural gifts, historical places,diffrent believers living together respecting each other, with reach history, proud and hero people, well comming and peacefull society, the only country to stand with out being colonized thanks to her heroic people, being the pick and also the lowest depression is found, many lakes rivers including the Nile, one of the countries to accept chrstianity and where followers of the profet mohamed were migrated and stationed for many years protected by Ethiopia and many more can be said about ethiopia; Ethiopia is be said a wonderfull country in many features, so to know Ethiopia please join us in our Mellinium (which is belived the true birth of Jesus Crist)Celebration and take this country to the new era.Long live Ethiopia,My country,my home.

I dont believe how your calender works. How can it be 1999 there now? Can someone please explain to me??????????????????

hi lemelm, i'm proud of you. you are trying to introduce my country. Foreign people who know that only Famine (starve) write them how beautiful country as we have.

Hi lemlem, I am happy that you have introduced our Calander, New year and the coming Mellinium. I want to explain some to those of you who are not clear with the calender and the 13th month. The Calender Consists of 365 days each year except at leap years where it becomes 366 days. It has 12 main months with 30 days each. and the 13th month (pagume) consists of 5 days each year except at leap (every 4 years) years where it becomes 6 days. More over most of you (the audences) are surprised at the Ethiopian Calander and Mellinum, yet I have another surprise to you. Do you know that Ethiopia has its own alphabets, Numbers? Do you know that Ethiopia has a written 3000 years of History and Teritorial integrity? Do you know that Ethiopia is the only African country to resist European colonization by its armed struggle? Do you know that Ethiopia is the home (Source)of man kind? Do you know that Ethiopia has more than 8 Historical and heritage sites recognazed by UNESCO as 'Worled Heritage Sites'. Do you know that Ethiopia is a country where Muslims and christians live together participating in many social gatherings? Do you know that Ethiopia is home for more than 80 ethinic groups with there distnict languege and culture? ....... more ... and ...and ...more.

I really enjoyed everyone's comments as they all promote understanding and tolerance for each other on the eve of the Ethiopian Millenium

Hi folks , The Ethiopian calendar is unique in the world, developed by the indiginous Coptic church leaning on ancient Egyptian astronimic calculations, the Jewish calandar and the Julian calandar - adopted under Julius Caesar and the root of all Christian date calculators. Europe in 1582 shifted to the Gregorian calendar, now putting most of us in January 2007. According to the Ethiopian calendar, we are in mid-1999. Here, "the year is divided into 12 months of 30 days each and a 13th month of 5 days and 6 days in leap year," According to Harvard University Professor Ephraim Isaac, most scholars that have studied Biblical times agree that the Ethiopian calendar is much closer than the Gregorian to start its calculations of time around the birth of Jesus Christ. Some put this event in the year 0 of the Ethiopian calendar, while most historians hold Jesus Christ was born in year 3 of the same calendar - or year 5 in the Gregorian. While those wanting to celebrate the 2000th birthday of Jesus will have a lot of confusing dates to pick from, it remains clear that Ethiopia enters its new millennium on 12 September 2007, according to the calendar used by mosth others. And it also remains clear that the Ethiopian millennium party will be an outstanding event. As every year, Coptic Ethiopians will celebrate the Enkutatash - meaning "gift of jewels" - holiday on their New Years Eve. The event stems from an ancient tale: When the famous Queen of Sheba returned from her visit King Solomon in Jerusalem, her chiefs welcomed her bolts by replenishing her treasury with jewels.

lemlem you are great.you are introducing ethiopia well.try to give more information about our millinnium.

Lemlem, I apprciate your effort to introduce your country. I hope you will not be astonished with all the comments comming in all direction. Ethiopia is the home of ancient civilazation. The year gap our calnander with GC is connected with the introduction of the christian religion. The birth of Christ is belived to be heard in Ethipia after 7 years in Ethiopia. As there are a lot we can learn from the world, we have also a lot to tell about ourselves to the world. Good wish!

God Bless You All, Lemlem And ETHIOPIA Do not forget that the focus in celebrating the millienium is JESUS CHRIST

Hi,lemelem we are proud of you what you are writng is very interesting and amuzing to me.Please do not stop writing as our Ethiopia teacher told as to celebrate the Ethiopian Millenium.

hi lemlem, all you did is very interesting, I really am proud of you, plz tell them more about my home land.

well a very interesting callender indeed.Maybe we will experience the real y2k thing!

I was hoping to introduce it myself but i guess Lemlem!you beat me to it!damn but yeh i wish i was in Ethiopia for the celebrations but wont be will be celebrating it from london!! cheers have a good one one love x x x

I was hoping to introduce it myself but i guess Lemlem!you beat me to it!damn but yeh i wish i was in Ethiopia for the celebrations but wont be will be celebrating it from london!! cheers have a good one one love x x x

Guys I'm very happy to read everyone's comment. It was informative blended with sence of nowing something new. As an African specifically Ethiopian I'm very much happy to celebrate this Ethiopian mellinium next to my grand Pa in my family who died at his 102 yrs ehight years ago. Lemlem U R so cute and amazing. you did a nice job. keep it up. have a good day everybody

What goes around comes around but still we are one of the poorest nation in Africa...So we should work hard in our own fields and and stop deforestation..many has to be done to keep this country alive..otherwise the worst to come..every body keep well