Kopetatum
Since Fridays are going-to-Kopetatum days (along with early Sunday mornings), it seems like a good day to post about it. Today Katie taught the kids, and gave out a whole bottle of chewable vitamin "tum tums" to her half-clothed kids who could all say a Bible verse...and one kid got the big prize, the empty bottle, because he remembered what tribe Goliath was from - the Philistines!
There seem to be more flies buzzing around in Kopetatum, but also more kids. (Or are the two somehow related?) They also seem to remember things better than other kids. After the Bible story, singing, and praying, their favorite thing to do is lift up the tarp they were sitting on, waving it over their heads and yelling, and often singing as they help fold it.
They liked my camera; it has an oversize LCD display and so it's easy to show them pictures that they exclaim over and laugh at and point out each other in. (At first I was fearing it might mess them up culturely somehow, with something so new that I couldn't explain in Karamojong, but it seems to be okay - something to wonder over, but not weirding them out much!)
Hito-kwi!!
There seem to be more flies buzzing around in Kopetatum, but also more kids. (Or are the two somehow related?) They also seem to remember things better than other kids. After the Bible story, singing, and praying, their favorite thing to do is lift up the tarp they were sitting on, waving it over their heads and yelling, and often singing as they help fold it.
They liked my camera; it has an oversize LCD display and so it's easy to show them pictures that they exclaim over and laugh at and point out each other in. (At first I was fearing it might mess them up culturely somehow, with something so new that I couldn't explain in Karamojong, but it seems to be okay - something to wonder over, but not weirding them out much!)
Hito-kwi!!
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