The run up to Christmas was very busy. On Christmas Eve we had a MAF Christmas Party which was for the international and national staff and their families. It’s the one occasion in the year where we are all together. The party was held down at Kajjansi Airstrip. It’s nice to hold the party down there as it reminds us for the reasons that we are in Uganda. The pilots probably feel that they see enough of the airstrip, but anyway! We had a plentiful array of local style food (the national staff tend to not like Western food). I don’t eat Ugandan food all that often, and so love the opportunity to eat matoke (steamed green bananas), posho (maize porridge), chicken stew, greens (a kind of spinach), Irish (potatoes), sweet potatoes and g-nut sauce (a pinky coloured sauce made from peanuts with the shells on – they are called ground nuts here in Uganda). This is all topped off with ‘soda’ – a bottle of any one of the following ubiquitous drinks – Sprite, Coca-cola, Fanta or Tangawezi (this is Swahili for ginger ale).
Several games were held – a Christmas Quiz and a tug-of-war. It was fun to see our night guards and flight followers enjoying themselves like this.
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