Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ninjas?

Dude! I live in town with ninjas!

Okay, not really. Lol. But, yes.

Apparently, some people here refer to the Somali ladies who wear the black veil over their faces (it ties on over the head covering and leaves just a rectangle uncovered over the eyes) as ninjas and the ladies who wear everything except for the veil (just their faces are uncovered) as samurai.

I’m not really sure why they call them that, but it makes me happy that I can say that I live in a town where there are ninjas wandering around in the market…

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