I have been 3 times in Burkina Faso.
And for this 3rd time, it has been almost 2 years past !
But I had never done one thing.
Well, I was actually never interested in it.
But I told myself, why not for one time!
So...
We have volunteer general assembly twice a year, in total 4 times for volunteer 2-year mandate.
Every time, most of the volunteers put nice and original dress/constume with unique hairstyle.
But I had really never had any interest for that...
But the AG in January was my 4th and the last one.
Why don't I try once ?
I decided to have an african haistyle.
I had no idea, which hairstyle would be nice so I let girls at the salon do what they think it's good.
We decided a basic one.
But it took 4 hours with constantly 2-4 girls !
They pulled my hair left, right, back and forth...
On that night, because of the pain of hair strongly pulled and uncomfortable feeling on pillow, I could not sleep well at all...
It was too simple with hair braided so at the GA, I hid it with a scarf.
But my effort wasn't nothing ! One of volunteer coordinators (↓) gave me her favorite dresser prize☆
After 5 days with the hair, I got tired of it and I wanted to wash my hair !
I started taking off the wigs by myself.
After 3 hours, I could only take my front hair part...
Next day I called a friend to help me.
After 3 hours with her, finally all were off !
My real hair was like this
After several days, my real hair was falling off.
Once is enough.
It was fun but with too much work
I admire burkinabe local women who change their hair style pretty much every week !
