August 25, 2009
Zenaub, the 23 year old Afar woman who watches over the Salt Investment Expat Compound where we live at Lac Assal, has become a good friend. She is trying to learn more English and I am trying to learn about the Afar customs. As a traditional Djiboutian housewarming gift, she presented me with a Daboita. This is a stylized version of the rounded huts used for housing among the lava rocks in this area. It has a slit up one side with a flap to cover the opening. It is now a prized posession of the Pyles household.
