Medicine Man!

SOOOOO.....the African Medicine Man was well, CREEPY! haha. We made a 15 minute drive out to a nearby town and met this medicine man. He looked to be about 70 years old. We sat outside because CCS said that some of the volunteers had gotten a bit creeped out inside his house. So we all sat down under a tree to ask him and his future "successor" questions about his "line of work!" I'm not really sure if I offended the guy or not, but I couldn't keep myself from laughing the entire time...to the point that I was crying!! haha He was staring this creepy smile the entire time at this girl Meg and it was just too funny. And then 2 chickens walked by and he reached out and grabbed one and body-slammed it on the ground beside him. When he let it go it ran as fast as it possible could squealing! It scared the daylights out of us! When we thought it couldn't get any funnier we started hearing what sounded like a rooster crow and we didnt know where it was coming from. Next thing we know, he pulls his cell phone out of his pocket and it was his ringtone haha. Needless to say, we thought it was really funny to see an african medicine man who looks to be stuck in the past with a cell phone that rings like a rooster! LOL. After all of us composed ourselves he asked if any of us wanted to volunteer ourselves for his medical observation...Kim jumped up to the plate first and immediately the man started drawing and writing all over a sheet of paper. We asked what language it was in and his translator told us a mix of Arabic and Demonic/Spiritual language....now tell me thats not creepy! haha. She then he told Kim all this stuff that was wrong with her. Eerily at all ended up somewhat true. Two more people did the same thing but when they were done he put this black dust on the top of their paper and then put another BLANK piece of paper on that one asked the person to rub the two sheets together. The volunteer had to have some concern that they were worried about in their mind this whole time and when they finally pulled the sheets apart there was stuff written on the BLANK sheet in Swahili that read You Will Know Your Answer Within 2 Months Time....it was very strange. Not very sure how he did it. After that we made our way into his house. It was really dark and smelled of incense and he had one little corner where he sat and kept all his medicines. For the three volunteers that he "observed" he made them these sheets of paper with arabic written on them in some kind of red dye he made....and he told them to put them into water bottles until the dye disentegrates...and when it does drink it or bathe with the water. When he handed Emily hers, she reached out to grab it with her left hand and you would have thought the guy was having a heart attack....because in this culture you never do anything with your left hand because it is said to be your dirty hand used only for hygeine matters. She felt really bad but it was really funnyyyyy because it was something any given one of us would have done. After meeting with him and coming home, we had dinner and then made our way to bed.