No shopping malls, no decorated street lights, no electricity in most houses, so no Christmas tree with flickering light. No Santas dressed in red suites and face beards. No competition for "the must have toy/gadget this Christmas".
Stuck in slow creeping traffic for more than 3 hours with "Holy night" playing in our Landy, I couldn't help but notice the absolute contrast to the outside. Shopkeepers and hawkers still selling the same old goodies from their baskets ( cookies, cotton ear swab, cassava, plantains, lanterns, candles, boiled eggs, flip flops etc.), amputees and the blind begging at car windows, dirty kids running, playing, laughing - the usual. No, wait - there's someone selling a big Santa face decoration, a few Christmas lights and a few illegal copied Cd's with Christmas songs.
But I knew it was almost Christmas when 60+ orphans started singing Christmas carols at the top of their voices then we visited the Wellington Orphanage today.
It was a great day and I look forward to a true Christ feast in Sierra Leone!
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a Freetown Christmas joke:
Q: Why did Santa cross the road?
A: to get to Alafia!!!
Happy Christmas to you, friend.
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