Sunny Sudan

I finally spent the day in a Sudanese home. It was a great day filled with warm family, delicious food, bumping Ethiopian beats and broken conversation. One of the Sudanese teachers at the school invited me to meet his family so I seized the opportunity. One of his sisters is a lawyer and she took me to get my hands hennaed at a local beauty shop. It took about an hour, she is so nice she told me I am now her sister, next week we are going to the market together. When we arrived back at the house the other 4 sisters insisted on dressing me up like a Sudanese bride and taking tonnes of pictures! I felt like a doll- hold your hands like this, now like this, do this... It was fun. The catch is only married women can have their feet hennaed. I am told it lasts for about 2 weeks and then you have it redone. It is one of the things the Sudanese are famous for, well that and war (ie: Paul Thoreaux's Dark Star Safari)