One down and 3.6 tomorrow

Okay short blurb on each photo:

1) Me in a 5-meter turban (taller than me even when folded in half) or me dressed as a ninja for halloween?

2) My host-brother Daouda and I being silly

3) Daouda and Adjara

4) Me after End-of-Ramadan prayer session. The fellow second from the left is my host dad, "Danger"

5) My front porch in the morning, with partially-constructed Gwa (hangar)

So anyway Friday was the end of Ramadan. Went to the early morning prayer session with Danger, which was interesting - everyone (a few hundred of us) sat in lines of prayer rugs, facing East. At first I figured there would be some kind of speaker or leading Imam in the direction we were facing, but when the prayer stared to go out over the loudspeaker behind us I realized that we were facing Mecca, not an Imam. The sun was cruelly hot, and I we were all sweating like mad. Anyway following that a smaller group of us went on a tour of the village with the Imams in front doing a song/chant, then we stopped and had Dege, listened to some more singing and chanting, the hunters fired off their flintlock rifles a few times, and then it was over. Following that we all went back home, and throughout the day neighbors would stop by for a bite to eat. What was strangest about the whole thing was the clothes on the children - everyone dresses up in nice new cloths for the holiday, which usually means traditional boubous and such things for the guys. However it is also apparently acceptable for children to wear new jeans and jeanjackets with "Nelly" and "Sean John" and "R. Kelly" logos - anything as long as it's new I guess. I tried to imagine showing up to church back home on Christmas or Easter rocking the Sean John wear, but I just laugh whenever I try.

More later hopefully, I'll be within internet range again on Tuesday and hopefully get some more done before heading back to site until Halloween.