[Dialogue] Visit to Bayad

[JTresise@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/3/2006 4:03:56 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
icaarchives at igc.org writes:

Irish  Boivin told me a story about someone giving our group in El Bayad 
a live  chicken or turkey or some kind of bird and no one knew how to 
dress it for  cooking, so they kept it live in the house for a while 
rather than admit  they didn't know what to do with it. Does anyone 
remember that  story?
Marge Philbrook
 
It was our first Thanksgiving in Bayad.  The villagers somehow knew it  was a 
special holiday for us and they wanted to help us celebrate it, so they  gave 
us a turkey.  We all thought that was really cool until it walked in  the 
door.  I'm a little fuzzy about the whole thing, but I think it had  something to 
do with an Egyptian requirement of having the turkey blessed by a  priest or 
killed by an imam or something.  I don't think any of us had  a farming back 
ground and I think the real reason was that no one wanted to  be the one to 
have to chop it's head off and pluck the feathers.  I don't  remember that ever 
having happened. 
 
John Tresise
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