A Fun Game

Many things here in West Africa are dependent on how you look at them. For example: Where you might see the road as a place to drive, the people here see it as a good place to walk (even right down the middle of the road) and the animals see it as a good place to sleep at night (who cares about the risk of being hit by a car).

Well, yesterday I found a fun new game, or at least to me it is a game. We take something which I am told is called “corn” in English and we peel the outside of it off. We start off with a big pile of corn and within 5 or 6 hours we have done all of it! To me it was a fun game as I sat in mommy and daddy’s laps and peeled the outside of the corn off. But it is all a matter of perspective. For the women who were there with us it was a time to visit (i.e. gossip). For the men it was nothing more than work.

Here are pictures of me playing the game and a pile of about half of the corn we peeled yesterday.