So I teach at the middle school every Wednesday at 9am. Therefore, I leave my house at 8 in order to have enough time to walk the 5km. Sometimes I walk with one of my neighbor kids, who is on his way to the middle school, sometimes I run into some women and walk with them. Sometimes I walk alone. Today I walked with a donkey.
Well, kind of.
As I made my way down to the road from my house, I ran into some ladies and as we greeted each other, a donkey ran in front of us! Not a donkey with the bu-donkey (donkey owner).......just a donkey. And really, although he was alone, he seemed to know where he was going. One of the ladies ran out trying to grab him, but the donkey would have none of it. He just started trotting along the road to souk. I mean, we are talking a donkey walking down the road, as if it is the most normal thing in the world. As if he was tired of living on the mountain and wanted to go shopping in souk. He clearly knew what he wanted, and that was to get to souk. He didn't deviate from the road once. The ladies and I just laughed and laughed as we walked behind the donkey making his way along the road.
I wish I had a picture! We were really wondering if the runaway donkey had a plan for once he got to souk.
Finally when we were just about a kilometer from souk, a car trapped the donkey and caught a hold of him. We turned around and the poor bu-donkey was running toward us. Apparently his donkey was not satisfied with his life on the mountain and wanted to look for a new home. Ah well. His escape attempt was foiled.
But it provided me with an entertaining morning!!
3 comments:
This makes me laugh out loud. OMG. Hilarious!
hehe! what a fun story and post! :D thanks for sharing, cousin!
Now that was entertaining! And proves humor crosses cultural barriers. The donkey seemed to me to be so intent on proving this was quite normal behavior so nobody would question his right to be going to Souk also. Lots of fun!
Love, Mom
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