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What an amazingly fun, interesting and busy weekend it's been. The wedding on Fri. night was good. This ceremony was for the female family and friends of the groom. The dresses women wore were a lot more elaborate than the 1st wedding I went to. They were so sparkly. The women all sat around the dance floot, some in chairs most on the mats on the floor. They played a lot of Swahili music and women got up and danced. Yep, and I joined em. Dancing at a wedding is easy and pretty boring. The women kind of shuffle around in a circle and move their hips. That's it, but they have a great time singing along with the music. A cousin of the groom who had recently been married was there and they sat her in the front of the room.

Fun Filled Weekend

Rachel Buhr
2006-08-21 18:21:08

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What an amazingly fun, interesting and busy weekend it's been. The wedding on Fri. night was good. This ceremony was for the female family and friends of the groom. The dresses women wore were a lot more elaborate than the 1st wedding I went to. They were so sparkly. The women all sat around the dance floot, some in chairs most on the mats on the floor. They played a lot of Swahili music and women got up and danced. Yep, and I joined em. Dancing at a wedding is easy and pretty boring. The women kind of shuffle around in a circle and move their hips. That's it, but they have a great time singing along with the music. A cousin of the groom who had recently been married was there and they sat her in the front of the room. After about an hour they brought out the food. It was very good, roast beef, sweet meat (which isn't meat at all, but is rather this red jelly-like dish with lots of different spices. It kind of looks like raw meat, hence the name.) and a little cup of coffee. While they were serving the groom came in. All the women rushed to get their head scarfs back on and some even put on their buibuis. The groom was dressed in more arabic style clothing. He had on a Kanzu (white gown muslim men wear), a black robe with gold lining, a turban style hat, flowers around his neck and he was carrying a sheathed sword. He came in and took pictures with family and friends. When people were done eating they left.

Sat. morning I got up early and went to the market with one of my host-mom's friends. (It was really nice that she came with 'cause otherwise the guys at the market would've tried to rip be off). We got back from the market at 9 and I met up with Leigh and Katina to go to Nakumatt, the supermarket. I hadn't been there before and was suprised at what we could find there. I was going to make Lia a chocolate cake from scratch, but we found betty crocker cake mix and decided a box cake would be better because of time constraint. ...