Eid is the 3 day Muslim holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan. We had expected it to start on Thursday, but we woke on Wednesday to lots of noise and clamor, and had a sneaking suspicion that the date changed during the night. It is all based on the lunar calendar and the Eid moon was seen earlier than expected. Thankfully, we were prepared in terms of clothes and gifts. We spent the next 2 days visiting with friends doing what you see in the picture above sans the chai (tea) in our hands.
I had a moment. I was following a local lady who was fully burqaed through the neighborhood visiting various houses. We were weaving through small alleys strewn with trash, donkeys and goats tied to doorways, mangy dogs scrounging for food. I stepped back and thought, "Wow! This life is really different!" It all seems right. I am having so much fun. What an amazing experience to sit in homes and begin to enter into lives, experience a new culture, talk in a new language. I can't fully explain it all. To go home later on and get on the computer and remember back in the States no holiday was happening was kind of strange.
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