At some point in the video call we share with you, Weini says, "whatever you eat, enjera, dorho, in the end it is about being together ... In any case, I miss all my life there!". Danait approves and confirms by replying, "Marraska!", which in Tigrinya means something like "much", or rather, "very much" - a word with a strong and round sound, beautiful, colorful.
From their words we understand very well that however happy you may be in your new country, it is possible to miss your home, where home is the way of being together, a miscellany of customs, traditions, foods, words, that by emigrating you leave behind, in the perennial desire to be able somehow to recreate them.
How much do you change and how much you lose in the natural effort to find a mental space in the new world? Do you end up looking a bit like it? Open questions that we leave on hold.
Sunday is the Orthodox Easter: we asked Danait - who is a kind of natural mediator for us - to help us learn about the culture and way of thinking of the Horn of Africa through video calls to her compatriots, in Italy or elsewhere.
Thanks to them for this gift and enjoy the journey!
