Moussa has since left Baltimore and here I am sitting on a couch in Seattle while Daryl and Moussa are off to the Ferry and the Space Needle.
With a little over a three hour drive from NYC to Baltimore arriving in the middle of the night there was no lack of hira regardless of my limited, but soon returning Hausa. To summarize this trip, Moussa is astounded by the amount of cars we have, our roads and bridges are monstronsities of wonder, and he can drive better than me. Perhaps he is not wrong, and it is endearing to know that Moussa will forever be the same.
Our first day in Baltimore, we decided to ditch the city and go out to my brothers farm in Western Maryland. This is a working dairy farm of 300 head, rolling hills, numerous large farm equipment and the smell of manure. A smell Moussa was in love with as soon as we got out of the car. In his true Fulan spirit, Moussa decided that my brother had to be a Fulan (as he has cows) and from then on has called him Jo'fo instead of Matt and calls my sister-in-law Fatima. A joke that he never tires from and my brother looks on puzzled.>
Things Moussa has learned from Dairy Farms in the US:
1-we let cows eat corn (as we know they would never be able to in Niger)
2-that we have huge machines that do all the planting for us
3-that the average dairy cow on this farm produces an average of 45lbs of milk a day, and some cows up to over 100lbs a day (going on 12 gallons from one cow)... IconAllah!!
4-machines milk our cows (Moussa milked some by hand then proceeded to drink it straight from the cow)
5-that we generally don't have bulls on the farm - what we mean by Artificial Insemintation. He got to see the magazines of different straws of semen you can buy as well as my brother AI'ing a cow in front of his very eyes. Moussa now wants to bring over a straw of this semen to impregnate his cow Niger... :)
6-we have huge silos full of food for cattle
......the list can go on. There is footage, that I don't currently have at hand of Moussa and his farm experience.
Other things that get an IconAllah out of Moussa:
-Malls and all there shops
-grocery stores
-amount of shops for women to buy silly things (bath & body works, victoria secret, etc)
-amount of cars we own
I think Moussa's fascination and amazement has brought out a new found appreciation for us in the things that we have and what a great friend we will never forget.
Pictures to come...
mw
With a little over a three hour drive from NYC to Baltimore arriving in the middle of the night there was no lack of hira regardless of my limited, but soon returning Hausa. To summarize this trip, Moussa is astounded by the amount of cars we have, our roads and bridges are monstronsities of wonder, and he can drive better than me. Perhaps he is not wrong, and it is endearing to know that Moussa will forever be the same.
Our first day in Baltimore, we decided to ditch the city and go out to my brothers farm in Western Maryland. This is a working dairy farm of 300 head, rolling hills, numerous large farm equipment and the smell of manure. A smell Moussa was in love with as soon as we got out of the car. In his true Fulan spirit, Moussa decided that my brother had to be a Fulan (as he has cows) and from then on has called him Jo'fo instead of Matt and calls my sister-in-law Fatima. A joke that he never tires from and my brother looks on puzzled.
Things Moussa has learned from Dairy Farms in the US:
1-we let cows eat corn (as we know they would never be able to in Niger)
2-that we have huge machines that do all the planting for us
3-that the average dairy cow on this farm produces an average of 45lbs of milk a day, and some cows up to over 100lbs a day (going on 12 gallons from one cow)... IconAllah!!
4-machines milk our cows (Moussa milked some by hand then proceeded to drink it straight from the cow)
5-that we generally don't have bulls on the farm - what we mean by Artificial Insemintation. He got to see the magazines of different straws of semen you can buy as well as my brother AI'ing a cow in front of his very eyes. Moussa now wants to bring over a straw of this semen to impregnate his cow Niger... :)
6-we have huge silos full of food for cattle
......the list can go on. There is footage, that I don't currently have at hand of Moussa and his farm experience.
Other things that get an IconAllah out of Moussa:
-Malls and all there shops
-grocery stores
-amount of shops for women to buy silly things (bath & body works, victoria secret, etc)
-amount of cars we own
I think Moussa's fascination and amazement has brought out a new found appreciation for us in the things that we have and what a great friend we will never forget.
Pictures to come...
mw
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