Happy Assumption Day!

I went up to Walarano to celebrate Assumption Day back on August 15 with my friend Magalie (not pictured), Kelsey, and Shaheed. (Shaheed is the mostly naked one). We went to Mass in the morning, had a good laplap lunch, and then there was some kastom dancing.

Since Shaheed is a young guy ... and all of these other young men were going to kastom dance ... they asked Shaheed to join in. As you can tell by the photo, I (and everyone else around) saw roughly 98.5% of him--those nambas don't cover that much.

It was a really nice event. The whole thing was to celebrate not only Assumption Day, which is a Holy Day of Obligation as a Catholic, but also the 100th anniversary of the Catholic Mission in Walarano. They have the most beautiful church up there, and during the ceremony, I kept thinking about what Walarano must have been like 100 years ago, when that French missionary got off of his boat and decided, here's it!