When we have the time, Diane and I take walks out to the bush. On Saturday, we took a walk to go see some nomads who had settled down on the other side of the airstrip that borders the edge of the village. Nomads are almost all Arabic, and Diane knows some Arabic so we were hoping to get to talk to them and hopefully see the inside of one of their tents. As we walked past a few of the tents, some kids came out and talked to Diane. They were real friendly, and we wished we had brought our cameras since it seemed like they would maybe let us come and sit down. While we were still talking though, all of a sudden I hear a "click" and one of the nomads had pulled out their cell phone and had taken a picture of US! Well. Welcome to the 21st century. Even nomads in the bush in Chad have cell phones that can take pictures.
We took a walk today also, past the nomads and out to the peanut and rice fields that the Kwong people cultivate at the beginning of the rainy season. We stopped to say hi to a man that was cutting down trees and bushes, preparing a place to have a rice field. We talked to him for a bit, found out where there were more people planting, and walked on... and while we were walking, I hear another "click". The man's son had pulled out his phone and had taken a picture of us as well.
Diane and I do a VBS on Fridays for the kids in Tchaguine, and last Friday was the first lesson. Before we started, we were just playing with the kids outside the church, and one of them came up, pulled a phone out of his pocket, and took a picture of me. I motioned to see the picture, and when he turned it around, I realized it actually wasn't a real phone, but a phone that he had made out of clay, and he had conveniently stuck a picture of a very cheesy looking white person where the screen was meant to be! Chadians apparently really get a kick out of the way us Americans look!
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