Yesterday was Halloween in the village. We had language class in the morning. It has started cooling down since cold season is approaching, so the afternoons are much more bearable and the evenings are lovely. My roommate has been gone for a couple days because of an ear infection, so it’s just been me at the homestay. In the afternoon I reviewed Hausa vocab and did my laundry by hand. At 5pm all the volunteers met at the pond in Hamdallaye for a Halloween party. It was so much fun! People brought candy and snacks and we had music, card games and an egg toss. Someone even brought plastic colored fangs from home for everyone to wear. After dinner we met up again to watch Hocus Pocus on one of the volunteer’s laptops until her battery died. All in all a great Halloween…much better than I expected it would be.
This morning there was a baby naming ceremony at one of the volunteer’s home stays because their family had a newborn baby a week ago. I was surprised at how short the affair was, considering the whole village and people from out of town came to attend. It started around 7 in the morning. People congregated, they slaughtered a goat, the family passed out dried dates for everyone to eat, and then they distributed dishes of goat meat stewed in sauce with bread for everyone to share. The whole thing was over by 9am!
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