When we arrived we parked up in the school field which was the main venue. We then walked down through the town along a road which had been lined by white painted stones. At the far end of the town a parade was starting, we could heat the rhythmic beat of drums and local shakers and the crowd of people gradually made its way towards us. A few people had painted their faces with white paint and tribal markings, there was also a crazy colourful costume bird which came over and ‘greeted’ us as soon as we joined the
Local musicparade. The parade moved very slowly through the town, the leaders at the front kept encouraging people to go even slower so we were dancing along but not really moving anywhere. I had been invited along by another British girl who works for GOAL and they loved that we got involved and joined in, especially when we showed them that white girls can shake their ass just like them.
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