PEACE CORPS GUINEA CHRISTMAS CAROLS

PEACE CORPS GUINEA CHRISTMAS CAROLS

I know this is coming a bit late...but there is still snow on the ground in the US. Enjoy!

THE CHRISTMAS SONG

Lesson planning by an open fire

Sweat drips slowly down your nose

Late night dance club plays it's music all night,

And folks getting bit by mosquitoes

Everybody knows a pizza and some nutella

Would be better than more rice

More petites than you could ever know

Will be salue-ing you tonight

They know that's foté's on his way

Just ask him once and he'll take you off to the states

But every villager is going to cry

When he sees I have no money for him or I

And so, I'm offering this simple phrase

To kids from Haute

To the Basse Cote,

Although it's been hot for the last 90 days,

Merry Christmas to you!

-Dante Bugli

GUINEAN JINGLE BELLS

Driving through the dust

In a neuf place bush taxi

O'er the bumps we go

Vomiting all the way.

Goats and babies scream,

Making my ears blood,

How cruel it is when neene

Elbows me in the guts tonight

CHORUS

Oh bush taxi, bush taxi

Breaking all the way.

Oh what fun it is to ride

In a yellow death trap today!

Bush taxi, bush taxi,

Sweating all the way.

Oh what fun it is to sit

In a traffic jam today!

A day or two ago,

I thought I'd take a ride

And soon this big tanti

Was seated by my side.

Her flappy boobs were out,

The driver was a grouch,

and a herd of cows fell asleep directly in our route

CHORUS

- Brian Brady and Courtney Clark

THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN GUINEA

On the 12^th day of Christmas, Guinea gave to me;

12 hours in a taxi

11 babies crying

10 tan lines

9 petits dancing

8 delicious mangoes

7 flat tires

6 mothers milking

5 vomit bags

4 broken windows

3 French men

2 crawling bugs

and a gendarme harassing me!

- Dante Bugli