Book: Captain Courageous, and Robin Hood (in French) Bon Chance
Song: House of the Rising Sun, The Animals That is the first song I am learning on the guitar
Ok, I had to write again because I have a funny story. A few nights ago after dinner, my sister asked me to go on a walk a little ways. She said she had to go run an errand. I figure what could you possibly have to go do at nine besides run to a corner store and pick something up. So we start to walk a little ways and about half of a k I ask, “where are we going?”
She responds it is pretty far where were going, so at this point I know I am in for a nice surprise. With this new info I ask where are we going. She says that we are going to visit the Marabou (a religious leader). Ok why are we going to visit him.
She says “I have a headache.”
“Have you ever tried Advil?”
“It is not that type of headache. I have to get the evil spirits out of me.”
At this point I am thinking, what did I get myself into?
We arrive at the house after a nice long walk and we greet the women outside and she enters into a room in the compound, which I was not aloud to enter. I go and greet some more women who are sitting on the floor, but they only spoke Wolof so the conversation was very short. After a few minuets I hear a kid call my name and invite me into the room, and naturally I figure, better than standing outside. Who knows how long it will take for her to get the demons out. So I enter a room that is about the size of a small bedroom and there are over 20 kids sitting all over the ground. I get invited to sit next to the two older kids who were making tea at the time and we had a conversation and drank tea while I hade kids climbing on me. The most difficult thing was that one of the kids didn’t speak French so it was a short conversation. Most of the time was spent asking me if I had four wives.
After a brief talk, my sister came and got me, I drank some tea, shook 50 hands and went on my way.
Just thought that it was a little different story and something entertaining that has happened to me recently.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
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You amaze me. Good luck with everything.
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