So, he has converted to islam. The way he did that was by reciting a few pieces of the qaran out loud in arabic and then getting circumsized on the side of the road by a seventy five year old man.
He will be marrying his bride in two weeks and i have been invited to the wedding.
I think his travel story trumps all others. He now sits outside our guesthouse smiling, wearing a burmese skirt and popping anti biotics. He told me it wasn't so bad and seemed somewhat clean. The 'doctor' gave him a shot in his penis before he trimmed it so it wasn't so painful. The doctor's office was on the side of the road on the outskirts of berastagi. It was tiny room with four wall walls made of rusted tin. When he arrived, the doctor sent his assistant, a little boy on a scooter to go get some medicine. When the boy arrived, he pulled out a pair of scissors from a box and the procedure began.
He said he couldn't watch most of it and had to shew people away who wanted to take pictures. His new bride was glowing when I saw her this morning. She will be moving to finland in a few weeks for a new life out of sumatra. A very interesting story that I will continue to update.
Not all relationships are so simple.
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