We celebrated Gus' 4th birthday last weekend with several of his buddies from AISB. Festivities began with a donkey cart ride around the neighborhood. When the donkey got tired the kids rode their bikes at the PreK playground for a while, and then sat down a much-anticipated "DISH-OF-DIRT" (Gus' favorite ice cream dish at Montpelier's Dairy Cream ice cream stand, which includes ice cream and chocolate sauce on a bed of ground up Oreo cookies with a gummy worm sticking out the side.) We have been safe-guarding the gummy worms since we arrived in Mali! To end the day, Gus got a traditional Malian chair and a new Djembe drum!
After the big party we left Bamako and traveled down river about 150km to the port town of Segou. We had a nice boat trip along the river and then spent some time in Segou's huge market.
A continuous stream of large "Pinasse" boats ferry people, fish, sand, firewood, goats etc. in and out of the Segou port.
Washing cloths and washing dishes on the river..... and boats offloading firewood.
When you think Segou think fish! Monday is market day in Segou, and there are piles of fish at every turn!
Segou also has some amazing Bogolan cloth cooperatives where you can get instruction in the craft of making Bogolan cloth and see some exceptionally high quality work. Here are some beautiful examples!
Some bogolan masters at work!
The end to a quiet day on the river.
The end to a quiet day on the river.
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Hello Jenna,
It looks like you and Gys had a fabulous birthday celebration. It's been fun to see your photos of warm places by the water. It's definitely becoming winter here with some snow blowing today.
Our class is getting ready for a Circus SMircus show this week. We are the performers too.
Mrs.D and our class
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