Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Today, we had a big discussion about Polygamy in the Phytochemistry lab. Sami is in the process of searching for his second wife. He was explaining how the Bible says that it is ok to have more than one wife, like Abraham, but that Polyandry (the practice of women having more than one husband) is an abomination. Alanna joked for a while that she would like to have multiple husbands and Sami just cringed at such an idea and shook his hands back and forth in disapproval. There a lot of mixed opinions in the lab about Polygamy, most people seem to think that it is too hard to please more than one woman at once. The conversation then turned into pre-marital sex or as they said, “seeing your nakedness.” Lol. Sami and Vincent say that in this part of the world people don’t have pre-marital sex…but we all know (at least everyone else) that this is not true. Lol. Needless to say, it was one of those conversations where everyone is talking all at once and it was hard to stay focused on what any one person was saying, so I walked away from the conversation thoroughly confused, amused, and shocked all at once.