Photos

(A following of this better photo, a few hours earlier in the same house).

Noisy : I was actually mesmerized by what was happening in the far and aimed primarily at the moon crescent = just perfect above a mountain of dried cowdung + at the dog who did not seem terrifying but IS nonetheless towards strangers (also trained to fight wolves) : an unusual apparition - even if not allowed of course inside the house (this family has 5 dogs, another one joined him at the doorstep later on, =>you can see the 2 dogs here !)
=> therefore, the rest of the photo is unsharp, a bit tilted and also noisy, the noise was anyway prevalent with the TV very loud and the many children who were very active and demanded constant attention .

Messy : it seems very messy but in reality there are strict rules in this family and if the woman cook finally joined us, the other female members were not allowed near us - as in so many other places, I was eating only with the ‘master of the house’ (and not his spouse who was nonetheless near him) and the 3 little boys while all the others watched : they would eat at another time…
Everyone in its right place, only the reverred cat is free to wander according his inspiration.

Funny : I found the whole situation rather comic, eating only potatoes with tomato juice as this relatively rich family wanted me to eat mutton with them but it is about 30 years that I don’t want to eat meat (only under torture) ; so, not really a delicious dinner and I HAD to accept this invitation and would rather have slept right away in my sleeping bag inside the mosque (my headquarters for the nights in this village) ; but in the same time, the little boys were very comic, the whole situation a bit surreal and I was just waiting to leave, laughing in silence about what I was witnessing. Very friendly people who tried to do their best to please a foreign visitor. Sometimes, one wonders : ‘what am I doing here ???’

(NB : I struggled a lot with this photo (colours, sharpness) and I know the result is not great, you may not like it but the whole series that I took in that house is very close to my heart !)