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‘Tis the season to ……celebrate Christmas

 In Uganda Christmas creeps up quietly. Without TV we are not bombarded with adverts and there is little else to remind us that Christmas is approaching. Yesterday there were some builders at the hospital with a machine repeatedly playing the electronic version of ‘Jingle Bells’ and a mechanical Santa was spotted in a Kampala Shopping Mall.

But it is time to celebrate.

 The first was the Children’s Christmas Party last weekend. This had all the normal ingredients including a nativity play (with sheep), dancing and lots of food.

 

 

Unusually (for us) it was held in the open air in the hot sunshine.

 

 

Yesterday it was time for the party for Staff and Students.

 

The main entertainment was provided by groups of staff and students. Our contribution was a dance set to the 2010 Football World Cup theme song (Waka Waka). This provided great entertainment to the African audience as most of the dancers were the white staff, with some local senior managers to enhance the rhythmic ‘style’.

 

Santa did make an appearance, in a sketch put on by the Children’s Ministry Team – but he wasn’t taken too seriously.

 

 

This week another bug dropped in. It is difficult to know which is the front, and which the back.

 

 

This week’s African proverb from the BBC Africa web-site is from Sierra Leone“What a sober man has in his brain a drunkard has on his tongue”