Zambettos and Playing frogger

a note on zambettos. the village vodoun practices sometimes can bother the normality of women in the village. i was a tech visit a couple months back and riding a moto with my friend and the driver. a man flagged us down and told us the zambettos were out. i was told to cover my head, given the man's sweaty t shirt and then like a good volunteer put on my helment. The moto then continues on and we passed through 2 checkpoints lets call them which were essentially men with their shirts off holding a rope demanding money. there was i am sure a vodoun fettish or a man dressed as a haystack somewhere in the village. for some reason women are not allowed to see this. it was rather intimidating riding through terre rouge with a bag over my head but i guess its a part of being integrated. sigh. my friend rich was a gentleman trying to reassure me. when we would stop there would be people surrounding us saying things in local language. all in all; i had a good cold drink; coke; when i got back.

playing frogger:::
when the catholics get in the taxis they cross themselves and i have started to pray as well. taxis, semis, motos, and any vehicle i am leaving out drive down the roads at life endagering speeds while carrying loads twice their size or more. motos will have passengers who carry rebar around their waste and let it drag on the ground behind them, potholes are everywhere, semis will take curves at dangerous speeds while again carrying oversized loads, people pass by honking and usually just miss the oncoming traffic and all in all people dont slow down for each other they just honk. i feel like motos are a little more cautious because they never win the battle but hardly anyone besides peacecorps wears a helment. i play frogger everyday; but i am still probably bad at the video game.