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The Art of Tabaski

October 18, 2013 by Joel and Andi

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Yesterday was Tabaski.  Tabaski is one of the biggest holidays here in Senegal and is quite the celebration.  Every family purchases a sheep to butcher and eat.  This year I feel like we finally mastered the “art of” Tabaski.  Last year we ran around trying to make it to every house we had been invited to.  We ended up eating 4 lunches and returning home absolutely exhausted.  Then we realized that everyone stayed home for the afternoon and went around and visited people in the evening.  So that is what we did this year.  We accepted one lunch invitation and then made rounds of visits in the evening, which was MUCH BETTER.  Slowly but surely we are learning how to follow the flow of life and culture here.

Here is a little of how our day went:

  • The morning we got front row seats to our neighbors as they butchered 4 sheep and buried the remains in the ground just in front of their house.  (no pictures provided since this is a family friendly blog :))
  • Around noon we all got dressed up to eat with one of the families we have grown really close too.

    The boys all ready to go
  • We ate lunch there and then stayed for tea and discussions

    Fries, onion sauce, salad and lots of meat
  • We came home and received visitors
  • Then we went around to visit our old and new neighbors.

    We accumulated quite the assortments of dishes as each one sent home some food with us
  • We now will be eating sheep for the next week to finish up all the leftovers we have at home

    Lets see how many different dishes we can come up with

Growth

The boys stole the spotlight for the day!
We were blown away by how much they have grown

They did everything that they were supposed to do without even being asked.  They greeted everyone upon arrival (super important here), they waited patiently for the food to be finished, they ate around the bowl with us and handled themselves Amazingly!  Last year we didn’t even want to bring the kids because we knew it would be such a struggle and this year they did it without hesitation.  Now that is growth!   God is Good!

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Comments

  1. Mike Pinkerton says

    October 21, 2013 at 4:08 pm

    This is just really awesome! I am really proud of those boys!! And I am wishing that I could have a little of that lamb. 🙂

    Love,
    Dad

  2. molly says

    October 19, 2013 at 12:02 am

    Praise God! So great to hear the ways your boys are growing…

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