Okay, so on sunday we went to the church. A swahili, christian church. We didn't understand one word! Or actually, sometimes they said some numbers that I understood, but only that. What we did was sitting there and listening, and sometimes all the other people sat down on their knees to pray, so we did the same. And two times during the church service we had to handshake all the people close to us. We had no idea why! The most funny part was that in the end everybody was suddenly watching us and we didn't know why, so my dad asked, I think... (don't remember). They said that we should tell something about us. So he said something like this: "We are a norwegian family, that are going to stay here in Zanzibar for one year. We thought it would be interessting to come to see the church, so here we are. We don't understand anything of what's happening (everybody lauhged) but we really like the singing. So thank you very much!
After two hours with church we had to handshake everybody and then we stood in a sircel and they auctioned off two prayer benches.
My thoughts about this church visit was that it was very booring, and I can't actually say that I wan't to do it again. It is an english church service that is starting soon, but I don't know if we are going. We didn't use to go to the church in Norway, so it is actually kind of weird if we are going to do it here.
I am sorry but I do not have any picture of this.
I am sorry but I do not have any picture of this.
The handshake is the sign of peace :) It's a part of a catholique service worldwide.
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