Coffee Talk for Females: Boasting Night

The crowd was small but we had fun dancing, singing, and boasting. We made a list of famous females on the board. Then participants had to choose from them and pretend they were that woman. For example, I was Hillary Clinton, and I bragged about how famous I was and what I had accomplished as Secretary of State. Fasika imitated Asteer Awake, a famous Ethiopian singer. She even sang one of her songs with her silklike voice. Bubuu was Azeb, the wife of the late prime minister Meles Zenawi. Because there were only 10 women there, they all had a chance to practice their English in front of an audience.