I have to memorize new relatives who came from other regions to our house today as well. And I guess it would never stop..
Our house is quite spacious, so it can accommodate about 15 family-members including relatives. Although a large living-room is large enough to accommodate 15 people and a big table, the family eat meals outside, moreover on the ground, crouching.
Once the food is put on the floor, family members start eating immediately without eating salutation. Everyone eats the food by hand from all directions.
At the timing they are satisfied eating, they leave quickly.
I’m always left because they leave very early.
Senegalese food menus are only hot and spicy.
Today's food tastes like curry.
Delicious!
We often eat rice and fish dishes, though, meat dishes as well.
They are eating some of meats.
It's a chicken dish on the left, and a beef dish on the right.
Most Senegalese are Muslims. I think that more than 90% of Senegalese are. Recently we hear the word "Halal” frequently even in Japan. They don't eat some specific food religiously. Those are pork meats and alcohol drinks.
That's why it is no problem for them to eat chicken and beef.
Especially chicken is often appered for meals.
We eat lunch on the floor even in school as the same as at home.
The sheet you can see in the picture is called "Bazan." Furthermore, they lay one more sheet out on the Bazan. They prepare the sheet in advance so that we drop crumbs from the mouth.
Senegalese drop the food from the mouth quite a lot.
Moreover, they put a piece of fish or a piece of meat bone on the sheet directly.
They seem that they try not to drop something while eating. They might think that it is no problem to drop something as long as they clean up at the end.
A wild donkey appeared outside today.
今日も新しい親戚の人たちがホームステイしている家に出入りしています。
名前を覚えても、また新しい人がやってきます。
15人ほど泊まっている家なので、大きい家です。リビングが20畳ほどあるし、テーブルもあるけど、なぜか、ご飯は家の外の床で食べます。
食事が置かれたら、速攻食べ始め！
「いただきます。」はありません。
いつも通り「全方位」から手が伸びて、食べ終わった人（みんな早食い）から、とっとといなくなっていきます。
いつも、私1人だけポツン。と最後まで残っています。
食事は、毎日辛い料理づくしです。
今日の昼飯はカレーのような味付けの料理でした。
うまい！
米、魚をよく食べるのですが、
肉もよく食べるのがセネガルです。
肉、肉、肉。
写真左が「とり肉」、右「牛肉」です。
「ハラール」という言葉を最近ではよく聞くようになりました。
食べてはいけないものがあります。
豚肉や酒、などです。
というわけで、とり肉、牛肉は食べても良いのです。
特に、とり肉の登場頻度は高いです！
学校での食事もまた床で食べます。
バザンと呼ばれるセネガルでよく見かける敷物の上に、さらにもう１枚シートが敷かれます。
食べるときに、口からポロポロこぼしても大丈夫なように敷いてあります。
こぼしても大丈夫、というより、セネガル人は、こぼしまくります。
魚、肉の骨なども床に直で置くのです。
「こぼさないように」という感覚はないようで、「後できっちり片付ければいい」という感覚みたいです。
今日はロバがその辺に登場。
