It is Friday 10 September when the editors of this page receive an e-mail from Amanuel Kihshen from Ethiopia, a Master student of Electrical Engineering. “In case you may be interested, my Ethiopian friends and I are going to celebrate the Ethiopian New Year tomorrow (September 11). Tomorrow will be the first day of the year 2003 in our calendar.” Our curiosity was aroused: how come that Ethiopians wish each other Happy 2003 on 11 September 2010? |