Tessa and her buddy Micaiah learned the fine art of pumpkin carving on Halloween. We don't have orange pumpkins though, so we used a regular green one but Micaiah's mama painted hers orange! The girls had a great time watching and participating and even Jack got in on the action. In Swahili, pumpkin is "boga," and Tessa came up with two terms for a jack-o-lantern: boga-lantern and jacko-boga. Pretty cool, eh? She's good with Swanglish or maybe just confused by her brother's oft-used name.
One odd thing was that I actually felt guilty for wasting a pumpkin, which I would ordinarily use for cooking pumpkin bread, soup, muffins, and baby food. I never would have felt guilty making a jack-o-lantern in the States! But I never would have used anything but canned pumpkin either. Also, after a few days, it grew mold and fruit flies - ugh. Never saw that in the States either.
All in all, it was a lot of fun and got some funny looks from our African friends.
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that creative tessa and her swanglish!
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