Is it Christmas yet?
It’s quite hard to believe that I’ve been here for nearly 3 months already – time seems to have absolutely flown by, even though it feels like an age ago that I was in the UK. Plus it’s almost Christmas – well western Christmas anyway – the Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas won’t be until 7th January.
It certainly doesn’t feel like being near to Christmas, and not just because of the weather – it is still quite warm during the day (about 20c), but gets cold in the evenings (I sometimes wear a jumper). I’ve yet to hear Slade’s Christmas song, or seen any shops displays/adverts encouraging me to go out and spend – although having said that the local pizza restaurant has been playing a Christmas carol CD on continuous loop since I first went there in September.
We’re planning a Christmas dinner over at Mike and Raf’s house for all the volunteers around – and starting to look like there may be quite a few of us – we’re ordering 2 turkeys from the agricultural college (if they can get them) and buying a sheep – so if nothing else there ought to be enough meat.
Be grateful for the lack of Slade. I thought I’d be able to avoid the usual British Christmas music being in Barcelona, but it seems all shops, and even some streets have English language Christmas music piped through. It’s as if the Spanish don’t have any carols, which surely can’t be right…
Merry (almost) Christmas, by the way
There seem to be rather a lot of goats being killed to feed volunteers! Dad and I are in OXFAM selling OXFAM ‘unwrapped’ goats to support rural communities and you are eating them quicker than we can sell them. What happened to my ‘almost vegetarian’ son?
Enjoy your meal……