It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ok maybe not but we're all faking it as best we can. Last night we celebrated Jessica's bday by going out for Indian food before heading to the national theatre for the opening night presentation of their Christmas pantomime "Tintin Goes Bananas: Who ate all the matooke?"
It was awesome though definitely not the most Ugandan experience as about 80% of the cast and the audience were expats. What could be better than spending your Wednesday night watching a girl playing Tintin try to figure out what has happened to the mountain gorillas in Bwindi and why there is no real matooke avaliable in Kampala only this vile (ok matooke is vile as well) Okey Matooke powdered stuff, before going to the Shereton for some ridiculously overprice drinks? Two drinks cost me 12,000 shillings (other places I'd pay about 6,000 or 7,000 for the same drinks).
The walk from the national theatre was rather amusing as three women (Jessica, myself and Kristy) could not protect Marijn and Ties from being propositioned by a number of women working along Nile Av....
Anyways Christmas plans are in full swing, Meg is looking into her visa to get to Uganda, Jess is moving into Jane's this weekend, Kristy has a flight to Kenya, there are orders in with people who are going home (mainly to Europe) for Christmas, we are looking at going to midnight mass on Christmas Eve because it something none of us do at home and then hitting up the Serena hotel for Christmas brunch (super expensive 5+ star hotel in town). Until then we are trying to get in the festive spirit in any way possible especially b/c it's still a balmy 20 degrees (chilly for us), this weekend Kristy and I are going to a choral Christmas concert, there will be a celebration of Sinterklaas Day for the Dutch boys, there is a full Christmas lunch (turkey and all) being served on the 10th and a pagent that night, plus numerous viewings of the few Christmas movies we have with us, and the stores have started playing Christmas carols.........
It was awesome though definitely not the most Ugandan experience as about 80% of the cast and the audience were expats. What could be better than spending your Wednesday night watching a girl playing Tintin try to figure out what has happened to the mountain gorillas in Bwindi and why there is no real matooke avaliable in Kampala only this vile (ok matooke is vile as well) Okey Matooke powdered stuff, before going to the Shereton for some ridiculously overprice drinks? Two drinks cost me 12,000 shillings (other places I'd pay about 6,000 or 7,000 for the same drinks).
The walk from the national theatre was rather amusing as three women (Jessica, myself and Kristy) could not protect Marijn and Ties from being propositioned by a number of women working along Nile Av....
Anyways Christmas plans are in full swing, Meg is looking into her visa to get to Uganda, Jess is moving into Jane's this weekend, Kristy has a flight to Kenya, there are orders in with people who are going home (mainly to Europe) for Christmas, we are looking at going to midnight mass on Christmas Eve because it something none of us do at home and then hitting up the Serena hotel for Christmas brunch (super expensive 5+ star hotel in town). Until then we are trying to get in the festive spirit in any way possible especially b/c it's still a balmy 20 degrees (chilly for us), this weekend Kristy and I are going to a choral Christmas concert, there will be a celebration of Sinterklaas Day for the Dutch boys, there is a full Christmas lunch (turkey and all) being served on the 10th and a pagent that night, plus numerous viewings of the few Christmas movies we have with us, and the stores have started playing Christmas carols.........
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