Zoo!

When I return from Sweden, Kairaba wants me to visit a national park in Senegal where he used to work. Apparently, there are lots of animals there. I couldn't tell you which ones, because Kairaba told me all the names in French.

He also told me a story from when he used to work there. One morning before work he bought a big bag of peanuts. Then the tourists arrived and he showed them a French animal and then they saw another French animal and then he was sitting and there was a woman on this side and a woman on this side and he was in the middle. The women were from France. No, not France. Belgium. He took out the bag of peanuts and the woman on the left asked what are these (Kairaba said this in French, as if it were the lady speaking, and then translated to Pulaar for me) and he said peanuts.

She asked, "Who owns them?"
Kairaba replied, "Me."
"Oh I thought they were for the monkeys."
"Would you like some?"
"Oui."

So Kairaba gives the Belgian lady a handful of peanuts. And here is how she ate them (this is my interpretation of the events as gathered from Kairaba's pantomime): First she removed the shell. Then she tilted her head back, gracefully raised one arm and dropped the peanut into her open mouth. When Kairaba saw this, he tried to show her the proper way to eat peanuts--but she couldn’t do it! She couldn't just casually put the peanuts into her mouth!

Then the lady asks for some more peanuts. Kairaba refuses. And she says please and he refuses. And she says please and he refuses. But he is only playing so then he gives her LOTS of peanuts.

The end.