So, Santa (or Father Christmas as I like to call him ) came to S'loene as well. On Christmas morning everyone in the house had a stack of gift in front of there doors. The 3 of us staying outside the main house had make-shift stockings (pillowcases hooked into a drawer in the living room).
What treats - nice things for showering, nice smelling things, some African jewelery and crafts, a zebra, books, lots of candy, chocolates, stationary, a flashlight, a plate of home made cookies and a very unusual, but extremely thoughtful gift...
On top of the other gifts
a single piece of green paper folded in three
Merry Christmas in red
A gift to all in the house - 24 hour electricity (or more precisely the fuel to run the generator)!!!
As most know by now, we only have electricity when our generator runs from 18:30 - 7:30 (weekend until 10:00). NPA (National Power Agency - also well known as No Power, Always) has been promising 24h electricity to all of Freetown as of 21 December (?2007?). No sign of that yet, so today we had almost 5 hours of our "Christmas present".
Of course I spent most of the time on my laptop under the gazebo, but did take a break to watch a movie in my room with the AC on at 18C.
Thanks Susan!
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