Hi friends, hope you’re doing great.
Yesterday was a memorable and fun day for my family. It was centered around my cute little cousin who is now three months old. There is a culture here where a child dedication ceremony is held when the child turns three or four months, sometimes two; it depends on the family. It is used to mark the end of exclusive stay at home nursing meaning the baby and their mama can go wherever they want.
I’m not entirely sure why it is called a dedication though, but I know it is a Christian practice so maybe they’re dedicating the child to god or something. Anyways, the ceremony begins in church where they sing, and dance and do activities related to the child and the families celebrating. Now, that’s why I nearly went to church yesterday.
I don’t go to church, not a fan in case it is not obvious, but I wanted to go for this one just because.
However, I couldn’t make it because the cars were full as we had a full house already the previous night. I was happy to give up my space for someone else and quickly went back to my room. I didn’t really want to go but I’m kind of happy I tried.
Anyhoos, at the end of the church service, the guests started arriving; the crowd was crazy as we had over five hundred guests in attendance. There was lots of noise, music, dancing, and fighting too; yes there were people fighting for food and drinks but that’s very normal in such parties of that enormity around here so it wasn’t much of a big deal. I couldn’t wait for the day to be over though because my social battery is an iPhone model - it doesn’t last.
I did some dancing and chatting with many distant relatives and people from my home town, it was nice. But can everyone go home already? The whole thing ended late at night, I think 8 or 9 pm. Now, the part I didn’t quite like was cleaning up and washing the dirty dishes so I was happy to skip that one. I was tired but I used that opportunity to put together a post for the sake of showing up.
It was a great day and an amazing party.
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