Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Bak-SHISH

We ran into a bunch of children at Elba this morning who kept coming up to us and saying "Bakshish? Bakshish." Confused, we said goodbye and kept going.

It got worse later, with a group of boys following us all around the backside of the tell Yelling "Bak-SHEEESH!" Boys 200m away would scream "Bak-SHI-ASH!" from the other end of the tell as well. They especially loved harassing M.

Our driver says "Backshish" means "money" or "tip."

1 comment:

  1. Well you have gone from the shouting of "donkey" to "backshish." At least you found out what backshish means rather quickly.

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