[Dialogue] FW: Visit to Bayad

[Harry Wainwright]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean C. Smith [mailto:jeancsmith at peakinet.net] 
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:25 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Visit to Bayad

Wayne and others,

Thanks for the great stories!

On chickens, turkeys and pigs...
When we were in Kenya, Art threw himself a party for his 60th birthday. 
(Totally out of character for him.) He paid for the food and busfare for all

the staff to come to Nairobi.  It was an all day celebration featuring Art's

induction into mzee-hood, planned and orchestrated by the staff, and a roast

pig.  I don't recall any problems with the slaughter of the pig - I think 
the butcher must have taken care of that.

Sam Were, Titus Wamini, Art and ? - his name escapes me - supervised the pig

roast.

Jean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Philbrook" <larry at icatw.com>
To: "Colleague Dialogue" <Dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Visit to Bayad


> 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