We just had a big holiday here, Eid al-Adha (Festival of the Sacrifice). I spent the night before at my friend’s house in Sousse, got up early the morning of Eid and watched her family slaughter two sheep. Everyone had a job to do. The father slaughtered the sheep, the boys skinned them and chopped them up, the girls prepared the vegetables and were in charge of barbecuing, the older women cleaned the meat, making sure nothing got wasted. Shortly after eating some barbequed lamb I went back to Monastir and got another plate of meat at our local business partner’s house. The following day my roommate and I were given a bunch of homemade lamb sausages!
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