Tonight is New Year's for the Muslim calendar aka Tamkharit in Senegal! Unlike most holidays this one is pretty low-key... there was even school this morning! Forgetting it was Tamkharit I scheduled a meeting for this afternoon but I had 32 students show up which added another 3 Junior Achievement classes to my schedule starting in January - I'm now over 100 students (and that's only at two of the 4 schools).
But back to the holiday!
For dinner we ate Senegalese couscous, chicken, and tomato sauce. As we sat down to the bowl they asked if I wanted a spoon then explained that everyone usually eats with their hands on Tamkharit so I dived in! Eating couscous isn't all that hard - just a little messy. After dinner the kids put on a ton of random clothes - some cross dressing, some just in ridiculous outfits - and put on whiteface. Then they got drums they had made earlier in the week and are marching around house to house kind of trick-or-treating. I bought a bag of candy earlier today that my family is giving out along with some cookies they bought.
Happy Tamkharit Everyone!
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