What do you mostly do
after you have eaten a delicious dinner? Well, to be quite honest, I often just
feel like staying passive while my stomach does the hard work. The local team
members here have a completely different idea about that, I found out last
night! We had all come together to share the Ramadan evening meal; everybody
had brought some traditional dishes to eat and home-made juices to drink. Soon
after we all had finished eating, one of the team members stood up and walked
out the room. Not long after that he came back with an empty jerry can. You
might not have noticed before, but a jerry-can produces a lovely sound or
should I say ‘beat’. As soon as he
started playing the first ‘beat’ on this jerry-can, the rest of the people joined
in singing; from modern Sudanese to traditional Sudanese and back. “This definitely
gives some new energy!” said one of the men while jumping from one leg to the
other while flexibly moving his shoulders and clicking his fingers. “It also
keeps the mosquitoes away” he added while he started moving his arms from side
to side. Of course we were happily asked to join in and we did. Who could ever resist
a refreshing Sudanese after-dinner-dance?!
