Last week I was with my dear Mame Fatou at her place in Guédiawaye. We were comparing boubous: we share tailor, Tafa, but I'm his only White client and he seems confused about the proportions of my body. I had just picked up the fourth boubou that he's made for me this year, and still, everytime the same thing happens: the skirt is enormous around by hips. Mame Fatou calls those extra pieces of fabric "my wings" and can't stop laughing everytime it happens. Then we go back to Tafa's, Mame Fatou says "hey Tafa, sokhna si has no meat yet!", comment to which Tafa's disaproving answer is always the same: "not yet!?!? And your jekker, your husband doesn't mind that you have no meat yet? It's about time you get a big bumb, you know."
El resto del artículo lo podéis encontrar (en inglés) en Madame Toubab, aquí.
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Haha, I love these little cultural differences. In Senegal you wouldn't get married because you haven't got your meats together while if you got your meats sorted at home you have to shine with a lot of inner beauty to find a husband. :)
Well, you are already married and in Senegal right now and you really want these pants ....
LOL! (I'll save comments on your bum for a more private setting.)
Would have loved to see you with wings. And der.thes, I think you just coined a new expression "to have your meat sorted." I love it.
Comments in English, this is exciting!! I won't make any more comments about my bum either :o)
BTW, have you guys seen the rest of the entry??? This is just a teaser to take you here ...
http://madametoubab.maneno.org/eng/articles/gar1264606771/
... where I talk about an Indian woman who's in town driving everyone crazy.
Tri-continental hugs!! (Michael in Asia, Alex in the Americas, Lunatrix in Africa).
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