Comments on: Posta! http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:12:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: sb http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-137499 sb Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:11:59 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-137499 hmmmmm... I remember scanning them posta from America for $$$$ :) hmmmmm… I remember scanning them posta from America for $$$$ :)

]]> By: Inat http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-131950 Inat Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:34:24 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-131950 Ok I feel better now :-) I found out there are some ppl over age 30. I am one of them. This post to me back to my childhood memories. I remember going to the post office early in the mornings with my mother. Her brother lived in US and use to send her aerograms. How sad Post Rendezvous is closed! My dad use to take my sister and me when we were little girls. That was a long time ago. I still collect stamps and postcards. Ok I feel better now :-) I found out there are some ppl over age 30. I am one of them.
This post to me back to my childhood memories. I remember going to the post office early in the mornings with my mother. Her brother lived in US and use to send her aerograms.
How sad Post Rendezvous is closed!
My dad use to take my sister and me when we were little girls.
That was a long time ago.

I still collect stamps and postcards.

]]> By: Nolawi http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-45780 Nolawi Thu, 24 May 2007 20:21:58 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-45780 Awet we do have a section dicussion section for such requests... its called the bernos press Awet we do have a section dicussion section for such requests… its called the bernos press

]]> By: Awet http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-45779 Awet Thu, 24 May 2007 20:17:32 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-45779 While I am at it, can I suggest to the host to include a sort of 'classified section' over here...unless people think that might make such a nice classy website a tacky one.... Just a suggestion....Eitherways, thank you for what you already set up!! While I am at it, can I suggest to the host to include a sort of ‘classified section’ over here…unless people think that might make such a nice classy website a tacky one….
Just a suggestion….Eitherways, thank you for what you already set up!!

]]> By: Awet http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-45778 Awet Thu, 24 May 2007 20:09:49 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-45778 I actually know this is the wrong place to ask this question so I APOLOGIZE TO THE HOST ahead of time. BUT, I am desperate for an abesha kemis vendor I can order online with that ships from anywhere in North America to Montreal. Anyone pls!!! I actually know this is the wrong place to ask this question so I APOLOGIZE TO THE HOST ahead of time. BUT, I am desperate for an abesha kemis vendor I can order online with that ships from anywhere in North America to Montreal. Anyone pls!!!

]]> By: Nolawi http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-39781 Nolawi Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:11:11 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-39781 no you are by far not the oldest... but I am sure there are really old people...:) no you are by far not the oldest… but I am sure there are really old people…:)

]]> By: Mamitu http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-39068 Mamitu Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:10:32 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-39068 <blockquote>how old r u?</blockquote> 116, that makes me the oldest living human being in the world :-) But seriously I am 35 plus some months. Seems to me I am the oldest person on your blog if non of you guys except Mindwithoutc remembers the place. The Information Minister was a Somali/Aderie Ethiopian guy and he was a minister about between 14 and 10 years ago. Post Rendez Vouz was closed about 1995. It was THE hang out place for kids who used to go to IEC in the SIM compound [before IEC moved to Sar beit ;) ] HA!!!! I am sure now you are even more confused than when I started my explanation.

how old r u?

116, that makes me the oldest living human being in the world :-) But seriously I am 35 plus some months. Seems to me I am the oldest person on your blog if non of you guys except Mindwithoutc remembers the place.

The Information Minister was a Somali/Aderie Ethiopian guy and he was a minister about between 14 and 10 years ago. Post Rendez Vouz was closed about 1995. It was THE hang out place for kids who used to go to IEC in the SIM compound [before IEC moved to Sar beit ;) ] HA!!!! I am sure now you are even more confused than when I started my explanation.

]]> By: Nolawi http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-39063 Nolawi Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:24:19 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-39063 [quote comment="39045"]Ya Nolawi, there was one and and they closed it after there was an assassination attempt on then Information Minister Abdul Mejjid Hussien. It was a cafe with glass walls, it kind of resembled the Martin Luther King Library in D.C. and the Cake was to die for and the crowd was even better.[/quote] how old r u? [quote comment="39045"]Ya Nolawi, there was one and and they closed it after there was an assassination attempt on then Information Minister Abdul Mejjid Hussien. It was a cafe with glass walls, it kind of resembled the Martin Luther King Library in D.C. and the Cake was to die for and the crowd was even better.[/quote]
how old r u?

]]> By: Mamitu http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-39045 Mamitu Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:45:07 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-39045 Ya Nolawi, there was one and and they closed it after there was an assassination attempt on then Information Minister Abdul Mejjid Hussien. It was a cafe with glass walls, it kind of resembled the Martin Luther King Library in D.C. and the Cake was to die for and the crowd was even better. Ya Nolawi, there was one and and they closed it after there was an assassination attempt on then Information Minister Abdul Mejjid Hussien. It was a cafe with glass walls, it kind of resembled the Martin Luther King Library in D.C. and the Cake was to die for and the crowd was even better.

]]> By: Nolawi http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38452 Nolawi Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:00:42 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38452 [quote comment="38048"]To top it off, does any one remember the cake at Post Rendevous? It is closed now but it was one of the highlights of going to the Post office for me and my friends and siblings.[/quote] that is weird I don't remember no cake bet? [quote comment="37233"]reading thsi reminded me of.... me. i used to do the same,run to look for our box and be like '''Ezhiga nuew y’enga”loool i loved going to the post office,what is diffrent about it how clean it was, the floor; u can almost see ur face, very clean way better than the us. about the shining of the building ya its dangerous. yup i have heared some one actually lost his eyesight cuz of it,my mom used to tell me not to look at it strait. it was like looking into the sun. thanks 4 the memory[/quote] dove, so its true how i remember it ... sigerm..! it was so shiny eko! [quote comment="38048"]To top it off, does any one remember the cake at Post Rendevous? It is closed now but it was one of the highlights of going to the Post office for me and my friends and siblings.[/quote]
that is weird I don’t remember no cake bet?

[quote comment="37233"]reading thsi reminded me of…. me. i used to do the same,run to look for our box and be like ”’Ezhiga nuew y’enga”loool i loved going to the post office,what is diffrent about it how clean it was, the floor; u can almost see ur face, very clean way better than the us.

about the shining of the building ya its dangerous. yup i have heared some one actually lost his eyesight cuz of it,my mom used to tell me not to look at it strait. it was like looking into the sun. thanks 4 the memory[/quote]
dove, so its true how i remember it … sigerm..! it was so shiny eko!

]]> By: Ethio Jazz http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38211 Ethio Jazz Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:18:41 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38211 Nolawi--you brought a lot of memories. We use to go on a bi-weekely basis. The box was owned by the company my dad worked for and so we gave it up when my dad retired and then we used the posta saten right by Arat Kilo. But, what I looked forward to was getting letters from Ethiopia once I moved to the US. I especially looked forward to my dad's letters. Thanks for the walk in memory lane. Nolawi–you brought a lot of memories. We use to go on a bi-weekely basis. The box was owned by the company my dad worked for and so we gave it up when my dad retired and then we used the posta saten right by Arat Kilo.
But, what I looked forward to was getting letters from Ethiopia once I moved to the US. I especially looked forward to my dad’s letters.

Thanks for the walk in memory lane.

]]> By: MindWithoutC http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38056 MindWithoutC Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:26:30 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38056 Mamitu ... where were u when i babbled 'bout it? :-) .. yup ..were u saddended by its new facelift? they now made it some computer training center. Mamitu … where were u when i babbled ’bout it? :-) .. yup ..were u saddended by its new facelift? they now made it some computer training center.

]]> By: Mamitu http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38048 Mamitu Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:15:42 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38048 To top it off, does any one remember the cake at Post Rendevous? It is closed now but it was one of the highlights of going to the Post office for me and my friends and siblings. To top it off, does any one remember the cake at Post Rendevous? It is closed now but it was one of the highlights of going to the Post office for me and my friends and siblings.

]]> By: MindWithoutC http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38000 MindWithoutC Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:14:26 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-38000 [quote comment="37284"]I like the disclaimer Mindw/oC[/quote] XNKs bro! you sure know how to extract an archived memories. Good work. -Nice day! [quote comment="37284"]I like the disclaimer Mindw/oC[/quote]

XNKs bro! you sure know how to extract an archived memories. Good work.

-Nice day!

]]> By: kiki http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37359 kiki Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:05:16 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37359 I loved the post office. I remember bugging my father to take me there every chance I got so I could get my mail. I had four pen-pals and I loved getting letters. The trips to the post office are one of my fondest memories of my father. When he passed away my mother found a collection of stamps in his office. That was something I didn't know about him while he was alive. I have the stamps now. I haven’t gone through them properly. But I take the book out once in a while and look at them. Thanks Nolawi, for bringing back fond memories. I loved the post office. I remember bugging my father to take me there every chance I got so I could get my mail. I had four pen-pals and I loved getting letters. The trips to the post office are one of my fondest memories of my father. When he passed away my mother found a collection of stamps in his office. That was something I didn’t know about him while he was alive. I have the stamps now. I haven’t gone through them properly. But I take the book out once in a while and look at them.
Thanks Nolawi, for bringing back fond memories.

]]> By: Nolawi http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37284 Nolawi Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:31:37 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37284 I like the disclaimer Mindw/oC I like the disclaimer Mindw/oC

]]> By: MindWithoutC http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37281 MindWithoutC Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:22:24 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37281 hope it didn't sound braggy or outta touch of what the topic is intended to entertain to... .. was just touching base to those who may not have had a chance to see it from the angle that people like me experienced it. that is all :-) hope it didn’t sound braggy or outta touch of what the topic is intended to entertain to… .. was just touching base to those who may not have had a chance to see it from the angle that people like me experienced it. that is all :-)

]]> By: dove http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37269 dove Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:59:47 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37269 i never though of collecting stamps just didn't see it as more that some stiky thing but,i love the posta red and blue strips,it just says ethio.. they better not change it. when i open my mail box and see the blue n red strip envelope, i get so exited,lool...... like a iittle kid in a candystore. i never though of collecting stamps just didn’t see it as more that some stiky thing but,i love the posta red and blue strips,it just says ethio.. they better not change it.
when i open my mail box and see the blue n red strip envelope, i get so exited,lool…… like a iittle kid in a candystore.

]]> By: Abebe http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37266 Abebe Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:54:43 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37266 Thank you for bringing all the memories back Nol. Our posta saten was at Piassa and I had the key. Beshou, who calls Chur cher godana Churchill godana, except you? :-)!!!!! Thank you for bringing all the memories back Nol.
Our posta saten was at Piassa and I had the key.
Beshou, who calls Chur cher godana Churchill godana, except you? :-)!!!!!

]]> By: MindWithoutC http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37259 MindWithoutC Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:32:49 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37259 of all of you ... only 'dove" mentioned about the neatness of the floor. :-) I was actually a key carrier at my very early teens. and what used to appeal me so bad was the ...neatness of the floor "Ebne bered floor" ! just beauty! Without exaggeration one can eat injera on it. its smell, the post office, is so vivid,.. was like the natural scent of our Addis Girls. :-) The post office was spacious as well, with amenities: -Peaceful work environ, advanced & at ease. -no darn starry eyes gaurd to bug. -its neat lost & found mirror case. -Oh, how can I forget "Randevou" cafeteria right in there with their delicious macciato, steamed milk, cake... ..i used to read letters there and walk out with misty eyes. ... Now, for the first time, I went home last year ..and...what i saw was a dismay, a heart- wrenching sight. a systematic destruction. Guard everywhere, the additional planless boxes, the floors that let its beauty to be stripped off... what not ... OH! anyone who was at 6kilo university in the eraly 80's would be disappointed to go in there at this moment. In fact, i kinda get a shot of my memories by often do my running or going to track-and-field events here at Stanford campus in Palo Alto, CA. its campus beauty reminds me AAU of 6kilo. Sadly, I discovered, our public HSs (Menelik II high, TMS, Menen, etc.. in the 80's had a beauty, solace and neatness by far at a higher standard than the ones here in the US. regardless of resource shortages we had. But, Now, all is just ... :-( of all of you … only ‘dove” mentioned about the neatness of the floor. :-)

I was actually a key carrier at my very early teens. and what used to appeal me so bad was the …neatness of the floor “Ebne bered floor” ! just beauty!

Without exaggeration one can eat injera on it. its smell, the post office, is so vivid,.. was like the natural scent of our Addis Girls. :-)

The post office was spacious as well, with amenities:

-Peaceful work environ, advanced & at ease.
-no darn starry eyes gaurd to bug.
-its neat lost & found mirror case.
-Oh, how can I forget “Randevou” cafeteria right in there with their delicious macciato, steamed milk, cake…

..i used to read letters there and walk out with misty eyes. …

Now, for the first time, I went home last year ..and…what i saw was a dismay, a heart- wrenching sight. a systematic destruction.

Guard everywhere, the additional planless boxes, the floors that let its beauty to be stripped off… what not … OH!

anyone who was at 6kilo university in the eraly 80’s would be disappointed to go in there at this moment.

In fact, i kinda get a shot of my memories by often do my running or going to track-and-field events here at Stanford campus in Palo Alto, CA. its campus beauty reminds me AAU of 6kilo.

Sadly, I discovered, our public HSs (Menelik II high, TMS, Menen, etc.. in the 80’s had a beauty, solace and neatness by far at a higher standard than the ones here in the US. regardless of resource shortages we had.

But, Now, all is just … :-(

]]> By: wudnesh http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37252 wudnesh Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:12:05 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37252 Nol and Zgent, sure, but got to kill you first :) Nol and Zgent, sure, but got to kill you first :)

]]> By: Welkayit http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37241 Welkayit Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:39:04 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37241 I used to collect stamps too. I still have all the stamps I collected. I think I have some 600 or more Ethiopian and other international stamps. I realy used to enjoy collecting these stamps because it was an interesting way of seeing other world's perspective. It was a medium of learning the culture, politics, economics, natural, and my other distinct charactersitis of countries and peoples. I was also so much obssessed with the red and blue designs at the edge of the envelope, I sometimes would hand-make the envelope from a blank white paper and paint it with red and blue pen so as it looks like an original envelope! I used to collect stamps too. I still have all the stamps I collected. I think I have some 600 or more Ethiopian and other international stamps. I realy used to enjoy collecting these stamps because it was an interesting way of seeing other world’s perspective. It was a medium of learning the culture, politics, economics, natural, and my other distinct charactersitis of countries and peoples.

I was also so much obssessed with the red and blue designs at the edge of the envelope, I sometimes would hand-make the envelope from a blank white paper and paint it with red and blue pen so as it looks like an original envelope!

]]> By: dove http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37233 dove Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:26:22 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37233 reading thsi reminded me of.... me. i used to do the same,run to look for our box and be like '''Ezhiga nuew y’enga”loool i loved going to the post office,what is diffrent about it how clean it was, the floor; u can almost see ur face, very clean way better than the us. about the shining of the building ya its dangerous. yup i have heared some one actually lost his eyesight cuz of it,my mom used to tell me not to look at it strait. it was like looking into the sun. thanks 4 the memory reading thsi reminded me of…. me. i used to do the same,run to look for our box and be like ”’Ezhiga nuew y’enga”loool i loved going to the post office,what is diffrent about it how clean it was, the floor; u can almost see ur face, very clean way better than the us.

about the shining of the building ya its dangerous. yup i have heared some one actually lost his eyesight cuz of it,my mom used to tell me not to look at it strait. it was like looking into the sun. thanks 4 the memory

]]> By: hewe http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37165 hewe Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:29:56 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37165 Thanks for the memories...our posta baet was 'arogew posta baet' ke-cathedral dagetun weto:) .....thanks for taking me down the memory lane Nolawi!! Thanks for the memories…our posta baet was ‘arogew posta baet’ ke-cathedral dagetun weto:) …..thanks for taking me down the memory lane Nolawi!!

]]> By: really http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37120 really Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:44:35 +0000 http://www.bernos.org/blog/2007/04/22/posta/#comment-37120 I love it! The long introduction "selameta" in the aerogram was priceless. It was so poetic. Unlike today where we just jump to the subject matter. I also reminisce reading the letters out loud to my parents. Everybody would gather around with a big smile and anticipation while I read the stories written on it. Oh, the love... I love it! The long introduction “selameta” in the aerogram was priceless. It was so poetic. Unlike today where we just jump to the subject matter.

I also reminisce reading the letters out loud to my parents. Everybody would gather around with a big smile and anticipation while I read the stories written on it. Oh, the love…

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