Nane Nane

Nane Nane day is the eighth day of the eighth month. In Tanzania it is celebrated as a farmers day, people who work in town take the day to work on the farm and harvest their crops and those that work in the fields take the day to rest. Also in Arusha there is a big fair, where supposedly there are all kinds of animals, games, and big sales of everything you want to buy. I went this year and was not surprised to find this was not the extravaganza everyone said it would be. The animals were standard farm animals: pigs, cows, chickens. There were turkeys which are rare in Tanzania but no lions or giraffes which allegedly the National Parks usually bring.

The teacher I went with said they were surprised to find so much open space, and so few vendors--last year it was packed. Still I enjoyed walking around. I did find some nice presents and now will not regret the missing the opportunity of seeing the fair.