d the community gathered together and we had a nice new year's celebration there was music food drama dancing and performances by children and adults it was really fun very educational and it was a great place for people to come together and embellished and share our ethiopian culture with each other and celebrate our nationality and our roots at the event we took many videos pictures and recordings of the music art and dance and drama performed there it was a really good event to me as well as other members of have had the privilege to not only attend but record and be a part of this event and it is just a really great sense of pride and a really happy time for the community and ethiopian even non ethiopians in in the community there were a lot of there was a lot of diversity at the event there are people from all kinds of cultures that came together to embrace ethiopian culture and just kind of learn more about the our country and where we come from and it was a really great event i had a lot of fun it was i was really happy and it just really feels good to know that you're part of something that is bigger than yourself and that you can not only represent but help your community and help your country by going to event and just supporting the community if you'd like to send any kind of message or say anything to the larger community or to us or the youth out there please just contact us come to us and we will help you do that and we will help you share your message to being community you can contact us here our office on twenty third in jackson or call us at tool six eight three eight six three five nine we are here to s i did not know about the research professor at least the you know i didn't know that original man started ethiopia i said well the first person i thought they was your first like there is no math based on science began in ethiopia so ethiopia has that the oldest culture in the world community and that knowledge need to be refined  communicating that to a lot of ethiopian kids may not even know that but we have to figure out a way milla ethiopia is the only african continent they never got completely as a society as a whole subjugated by europeans they fought their weaponry may not have been as strong or as good as the titans but the knowledge of the land their culture and stories need to be told we don't know that black people beat the europeans and any part of africa you did and we've got to figure out a way particularly with the open children and i african american they have typewriter there are ice cream potato chips all these things are inventions of blacks that went and got so and not so much i'm sam black's a period but we can do anything any body else can  need to have that knowledge and even though africa americans are the last people of africa and that we don't know on a specific route and anyplace in africa there's no reason why we st can benefit from a higher knowledge of what the real history of africa has been and use that i'm inspired by get myself together locally in every don't do that i submit to you that we will you know lead lose the bell for the minds and souls of our children and you mentioned the difficulty we already have in africa america with the way our criminal justice system works and when you get caught in it how hard it is to pull yourself out where you get ever have a meaningful life and this is why the again we get we've got to figure out movements that allow us to communicate better work cooperatively together and at least have a better appreciation understand our own history culture and history and if we do that we're better able to deal with all the problems in our respective communities thank you didn't see a whole lot of sights and scenes because i really just wanted to be around the people the things that impressed me the most is the family you know seen men walking with children through the streets that kind of unity you don't see much here i don't see much of the united states and i saw how the people seem to care they are very friendly people very happy type people people who are resilient and i saw people were very strong and i enjoyed the  entertainment a lot that the dances i went to one show there they show all the different dances from all different regions i had to go twice i enjoyed it so much i ate my first fish it completely when i was there i we have a fascinating set up here as far as a studio to provide training for students and for young people to get experience in the world of multimedia to broadcast information and news out to the various communities around seattle in the greater seattle area this is a fantastic operation here and i encourage everyone to be supportive and encouraging to our young people who partake in  hi i'm dr john german former principal and see all public schools middle college high school i would like to endorse the multimedia resource and training  students have the opportunity to come in and learn a skill or increase their skill in the whole area well two of multi media resources i celebrate it and although i'm learning more and more about it maybe that come in get my skills tuned up to the next level of of working with a computer computer and also being able to create i hope my grandchildren are able to come to my storefront business and be able to supplement the education they have learned in their schools i really and dorce and i'm happy to be a part of the multimedia resource training institute hello this is t west now i would like to just share a little bit of information with you if you want your story know you want your story to be accurate and sometimes most of the time you need to tell that story yourself with your people and this is an opportunity to do that with well with the multimedia resources training institute so this is a time that i think is a wonderful time for this organization to move even further ahead and telling our story thank you well i just like to say that this is my purse opportunity first experience being here part of the multimedia resources and training institute and i think it's so wonderful thing that you're trying to accomplish here having this mechanism to record messages at this level and then broadcast that to a much larger community and i know there's so many different things that you're probably curious about as an immigrant community programs like where i used to work in social security and other benefits are available to people trying to become knowledgeable it's a very difficult thing to do so to have folks come in and to address this program here is definitely unique in for a multimedia outreach that stephanie something unique here that's really cool that you're dealing with community issues or dealing with social justice issues can gauge mint and all with getting used involved through using the technology here and using multimedia resources the classes sound really great the way that  you're partnering with other organizations in the area is a really really neat i think is a great organization and string great stuff and it's definitely one of our top success stories for the technology matching fund thank you