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A day in the life of
Tesfanish
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• This is the story of
Tesfanish.
• She lives in a small
city in Ethiopia.
• She is 12 years old.
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• Tesfanish is an
orphan.
Salam
• She lives with
her aunt, Dasash
Mulu and her
cousin, Salam.
Dasash Mulu
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Let’s look at what Tesfanish does during the day.
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Chores
• Tesfanish helps her aunt to
clean the room where
they live.
• Sometimes her aunt
leaves early for work.
Tesfanish makes breakfast
and lunch for herself and
her cousin.
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Mealtime
• Tesfanish eats kinshe for
breakfast. Kinshe is is
like porridge. It is served
with fried onion and hot
peppers.
• Tesfanish eats Injera, an
Ethiopian bread that
looks like a pancake,
and shiro, a chickpea
sauce with spices, for
lunch and supper.
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Free Time
In her free time,
Tesfanish plays
games like:
• senyo masenyo
(like hopscotch)
and
• tata (like jacks)
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School
• In Ethiopia,
school is only half
a day.
• Students wear
uniforms like this
one
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Dreams
• Tesfanish works
hard in school.
• She wants to be a
doctor when she
gets older so that
she can help
people.
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Dasash Mulu works hard
to pay for Tesfanish to
go to school. She wants
Tesfanish to achieve her
dream.
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Dasash Mulu says
she only has one
wish:
“I want to see
Tesfanish live and
go to school.”