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<\/a> At the National Week of Culture, there were lots of dancers from different ethnic groups doing their traditional dances.<\/p>\n<\/a> Here are musicians accompanying dancers. These instruments are called balaphones.<\/p>\n<\/a> This is from the \u201cfair\u201d that was part of the National Week of Culture. This time I went with two of my friends \u2013 Sita and Sophie. On another day (it was 40 cents to get in, so I went a few times with different people) I went with my language helper, thinking that I could learn a lot of new vocab words in Jula. But I think that I gave her more English words for things she didn\u2019t have words for in Jula than she gave me new vocab words in Jula. They didn\u2019t have words for things like squirt guns (just called a gun in Jula), snap bracelets (called a bracelet, and if you wanted to specify which kind, you\u2019d say, \u201cthe bracelet that you hit your wrist with and it wraps around it\u201d), and pinwheels. She also didn\u2019t know the names of licensed characters we saw pictures of: Mickey and Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Snow White, and Ariel. Though, to be fair, when I explained that Ariel was a half-fish and half-human, there was a word for a mermaid in Jula!<\/p>\n<\/a> Sophie and I celebrated our birthdays together since they are 11 days apart. We had pork, French fries, fried plantains, a saut\u00e9 dish, and a vanilla cake.<\/p>\n