The night in the cultural village

 So we spent the night at the Baurushe Cultural Lodge. It's this nice little place with huts you can stay in stuff.

 These are the people who run the place.  The woman in the brown was explaining how the chief runs the place and who each person was.  While we were there they did multiple dances for us.  At one point the boys had to dance with the chief. It was very comical to see. The dances include a lot of stepping and hops, and clapping.

 This is one of the huts they had. Inside there is a single pole going to the ceiling. It can fit about 6-8 people in it.  I did not get to actually stay in the hut. My friend Gwen and I shared a tent right outside of the hut. 

 I played this game called Mhele. The object of the game is to get all the other persons rocks. You try to get 3 of your rocks in a row and when you do you can take one of the opponents rocks. You also want to try and stop them from getting 3 in a row. It reminded me of tic tac toe, and checkers. It was fun to play and watch.  The guys would pretty much take over while other people were playing because the guys knew how to play better. Whenever an opponent got a rock taken away or was prevented from getting 3 in a row, they guys would make this farting noise.

It rains in Africa. And when I say it rains, I mean it downpours for about 10-20 minutes. Everything got soaked.  You can always tell when there is going to be a storm because it gets ridiculously windy and you can hear the thunder in the background.  So we all had to run under one of the large gathering areas and wait for it to stop raining.

 This was the large gathering area I just mentioned.  We sat in chairs in it, and the woman who introduced the place told us some more about it, after everyone told her where we were from.  We also had dinner here, which was very good. It consisted of chicken or pork, rice, pp (which is maize,it looks a lot like mashed potatoes but thicker), and some salad.

The totem for this place is the baboon.  So there are status of baboons near the entrance and they can be found around the place as well.  I have actually seen a baboon in real life, walking on the side of the road.