Moon at the End of Ramadan

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Everyone said that yesterday would be a holiday for the End of Ramandan. And the Muslim leaders in Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast agreed.

But when I got up at 7AM on Monday morning and yelled out the front window of the house at my guard, "ROLAND??? IS TODAY A HOLIDAY?" He just replied, "NO Jennifer. They couldn't see the moon."

"Does that mean I have to do go work?"

"Yes, Jennifer"

Awwww CRUD. So I went to work.

And the next day, I documented the moon over the trees from the gate of the guesthouse in N'Zerekore... just in case they wanted proof that Ramadan was really supposed to be over in Guinea. :)