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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

The Christmas Weekend

The Christmas weekend produced pleasant surprises when we made a significant amount of new friends. Christmas Eve we met at a Wycliffe Bible Translation Guest House in Accra where party games and a Christmas bring and share tea took place.



Then on Christmas day we had another invite to a larger gathering for a Christmas Day Party with a "Present Swap" and steal option, hard to explain, but it was fun....here we met another 80+ people, (mainly US and EU citizens working in Ghana, UNHCR, Amnesty Int, NGO's, Schools and others)



And finally yesterday we splashed around until our skins were wrinkled in the private of the company office pool.

On reflection, this Christmas had no peer pressure of what presents the children recieved, no bloated "I ate too much" feelings, in fact we only bought a box of Mars for the sweet part this year and it came with a free mug. It was hard to actually feel it was Christmas, with the temperature at 30+ degs and the humidity still quite high. For many here in Africa Christmas is a big burden since they don't even have the basics and go through the festive season not able to give to their own what they would if they had the means - it's humbling.

posted by Andrew at 8:30 am

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow! I bet you guys had a different christmas! but looks like a very eventful fun christmas! I'm glad you guys had fun! I miss you all soo much and I am thinking about coming to Ghana to see you guys in the summer!(if thats ok with you guys) anyways! Merry Christmas and Happy new year!
God Bless
Leeann xo

Saturday, December 30, 2006  

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