Day 42

Today we attended the baby naming ceremony for some friends of Kari and Jonathan’s. For the ceremony I got to dress up in my fancy, green and gold, Senegalese outfit, complete with the headscarf. Kari didn’t remember how to tie the headscarf, so I asked a woman at the hotel to help me. She called someone else who tried to do it, but she said my hair was too slippery. So she asked another woman to tie it. Turns out I had about 4 Senegalese woman trying to tie my headscarf…

On the way to the ceremony we ran into some problems. First, the police stopped our taxi driver to make sure our driver had the right license for driving a taxi. Then our friends who were driving in front of us got rear-ended by a taxi (not the taxi we were in). Then we had to take a detour because the road we were driving on was blocked. But finally we made it to the ceremony. However, because of the trouble we ran into, we missed the actually ceremony. We got there just as they were saying “Amen” at the end of the ceremony. But we got to eat more laax (lah), sit on mats outside and chat, and eat lunch (meat, rice, vegetables) out of a common bowl. I got some great pictures there!

 My fancy outfit