Don’t Be Afraid To Ask Questions?

 An American teen age friend of ours was traveling in Turkey with her parents and on one of her many visits to the ancient bazaar she purchased a very hip and cool hat to wear. After several days of sight seeing, fantastic shopping and taking excursions around the intriguing city she heard of some sort of a music concert that was soon to happen.

Being a typical teen she insisted on going, “Hey this was a once in a life time chance,” she exclaimed! With some reluctance her parents said it would be fine but they were going along with her since she knew no one else in the country. They arrived at the concert at the set time and sure enough they heard all kinds of rock bands playing, and oh wow, there were plenty of guys lined up waiting to get into the concert. This was fantastic, something the kids back home could only dream about, maybe an Asian Woodstock? Mostly the kids (nearly all boys) were wearing really far out clothes, sort of a crude uniform type jacket and assorted pants and many of them were wearing the very same kind of hat our friend was wearing and she felt really cool.

Everyone was excited, swaying to the music and really getting into it. The lines slowly moved into the stadium and so did the trio who were being carefully scrutinized by the younger crowd. The parents thought that this was due to the fact that there were very few girls around and so their daughter must have been a real unusual sight for these many young men. After all, this was an Arab country, many girls were not allowed to attend these types of events. Once in the stadium they found a good seat over looking the scene below. However, there was something strange about the whole thing, yes, there were bands playing but why were all those stretchers and cots laying in rows on the field below? Was it going to be that heavy of a concert, O WOW!

Things took a turn for the worse when many of the young uniformed boys began to lay down on a collection of cots while male nurses seemed to be checking them out. The entire scene was very different and did not quite have the same feeling as an American rock concert. The father soon realized something was really different, and once he got it, or finally caught on what was going on he earnestly told his family to get up and “Let’s get the heck out of here!” With irritating protest our young teen friend began to argue with her father, “Why Dad, it’s just getting started, this is really cool!” With some effort, the concerned father carefully drew his daughters attention off the rocking bands on stage, onto the activity down on the field. “Oh my goo…ssh,” she exclaimed in embarrassed horror. But it was too late, the daughter too realized this concert was not a concert at all but it was a mass public CIRCUMCISION FESTIVAL for young men. Yes, I said a CIRCUMCISION FESTIVAL!

This means that the bands playing there were only there as a draw for the many boys who were at the age to be circumcised and this public gathering was one of the ways the Turkish society handled this annual event. The real catcher was that the hat the young girl had bought and had been wearing for a few days, thinking it to be real cool, was a hat that the young boys all wore, actually was as if a badge or sign of pride, for it was a hat identifying them AS SOON TO BE CIRCUMCISED!!!

Lesson: If your not a seasoned traveler (and even if you are) be careful in the choosing of your entertainment and especially beware of out of the ordinary cool hats! It does not hurt to ask questions, it does not hurt to double check the answers from someone you might trust. In fact one of the most important things about Travel and Adventure is that you do ask questions? Note: The only way the parents could persuade their daughter to return home with them was to promise that they would never, ever tell this story. But as all verbal commitments go, this story found a way out of the chamber of secrets!

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