Not much happened today.
Went up to Ethiwar to visit Bernard and his family and bring them some cola nuts. I missed his kids a lot and was so happy to play with them under the big tree. They didn't want to let me go when I decided to walk back down with Bernard. Apparently they even screened for !e to stay and live there with them. They were so cute. All of them climbing on top of me, each trying his/her best to catch my attention.
I learnt about the "sevrage" process in the Bedik culture. In the West this is when a new mom slowly trains her baby to stop being breast fed and transition over to the bottle. With the Bediks, this process consist in not only getting the baby used to no more breast feeding but also no mom. Indeed, for a whole week the mom will stay in another village. Tough one!
Once we reached back Indar, at sun down, I walked around Indar, Baniang, and Bandafasi with Bernard, family by family, as he was communicating to people the time and day of the next mass.
And in the evening, after dinner, i watched Brazil lose its bronze medal opportunity at the world cup...we were all sitting on the dirt floor, outside one of the hits, and watching the mini tv screen standing on a small table. sitting on the dirt floor in between huts, all of us.
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