1 wedding, 1 birth, and 2 deaths

Who knew so much could happen in just one week at site?

I got back from Sikasso to find that there was a big wedding going on in village; two young people from my village got married and that meant 5 days of dancing, eating rice, drinking tea and playing cards.

My homologue’s sister, Jenabu, gave birth to her second child and seven days later they named him Adama. She gave birth last year to first baby, but that baby died two weeks after the birth, he was really tiny. It seems like she got pregnant right after that and already has this new baby. Adama is really small too, and I just hope that he will make it.

My bunny featured in last week’s blog finally parted. He had been sick for like three weeks. I finally took him into my house because I was convinced the other bunnies were hurting him. I decided to take him to the ‘vet’ and by vet I mean a guy in my market town who sells animal meds and never went to school. So anyway I took the little bunny to the vet and the vet gave him a shot. He died later that afternoon- in my hands… He was convulsing and then gasping for breath and I tried to ease his pain but he eventually dies in my hands. I am convinced it was the shot that did it…
The weirdest thing though this week was coming back from Sikasso to find out that this young man from my village died that morning. His name was Sinali and he was not sick at all. He was probably my age and not married and the only young man left working in his family’s fields. Apparently he was chatting late the night before in a nearby village and fell over/passed out, so they took him home, tried going to my market town to get the doctor, but he wasn’t there and by the time they got back he was dead just like that. Everyone was shocked, including I.