[Dialogue] Visit to Bayad

[Lawrence Philbrook]

Dear Wayne'

Thank you so much for the great note on EL Bayad .  I was there a year 
ago to do a week of leadership training in the conference center.  I was 
blown away to be there after all these years and to be working with such 
a great and diverse team of people but I had no frame of preferences 
since it was my first visit.  I am also glad to know Canada is 
supporting the continuing journey of the team they are great people.

In terms of all this conversation about chickens and turkey all meat 
must be killed properly to be halal.  I never did learn the way doing it 
but we had the same issue in Kenya several times and Evelyn has a great 
story about one of the chickens we were having for a feast in Kamweleni 
that perhaps she will tell at some point.

JTresise at aol.com wrote:
> 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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