"Di-pan-tad, Di-pan-tad, on a Di-pan-tad pour vous ! "
Etienne arrived at Educolo to teach his two students (young guys) this afternoon and that was the first thing they said to him. He was slightly confused and couldn't understand what they were saying so he asked them what they meant and they repeated the same thing.
Then a light bulb went on. The French word 'pintade' = guinea fowl.
And 'dix' = ten.
Images of a bunch of frozen birds popped into his mind... And then he remembered he was in Bénin.
Indeed, these two guys have just returned from a couple of days in 'the village' (Banikoara), and they brought back a gift for their computer teacher of ten live squawking birds!!
HELP!!
Michée and Elmire left for Cotonou this morning as they need to get their visas for their trip to America later this year, so they're not on hand to tell us what on earth we should do with the things!
Etienne asked the boys if they could look after the birds until Monday and they said that would be fine. Phew!!!
Oh, and Lazare (our church elder who also works at the computer centre) said if we needed someone to kill them, he would be more than willing to oblige...!
We can't complain that life is dull here! :-)
Etienne arrived at Educolo to teach his two students (young guys) this afternoon and that was the first thing they said to him. He was slightly confused and couldn't understand what they were saying so he asked them what they meant and they repeated the same thing.
Then a light bulb went on. The French word 'pintade' = guinea fowl.
And 'dix' = ten.
Images of a bunch of frozen birds popped into his mind... And then he remembered he was in Bénin.
Indeed, these two guys have just returned from a couple of days in 'the village' (Banikoara), and they brought back a gift for their computer teacher of ten live squawking birds!!
HELP!!
Michée and Elmire left for Cotonou this morning as they need to get their visas for their trip to America later this year, so they're not on hand to tell us what on earth we should do with the things!
Etienne asked the boys if they could look after the birds until Monday and they said that would be fine. Phew!!!
Oh, and Lazare (our church elder who also works at the computer centre) said if we needed someone to kill them, he would be more than willing to oblige...!
We can't complain that life is dull here! :-)
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