update on the new name.

{ April 30, 2010 @ 1:48 pm } · { Uncategorized }

so. update on the new name, bamoussa damba. So I thought that this name meant one of the following: big woman, goat woman, ocean woman etc. but it turns out it’s a BOY’S name.

So Aziz, our teacher, was telling us that sometimes people have names like “ugly” or “Wednesday” because if a woman has trouble having children, or has a lot of miscarriages, they will start naming their children ugly/weird names so the evil spirits will not want to come get them. Similar story with naming girls boys names. If a woman has a lot of girls and wants to have a boy, she will name a girl a boy’s name so the next baby will be a boy. Its possible that this happened with my new grandma, after whom I was named Bamoussa. So now some people are making fun of my “keetoo” (boy’s name). But I like it. Especially when my new counterparts say “baaaaaamousaaaaaaaaaa” in passing.