x-mas (the eve)

Christmas Eve we had a bonfire and cooked smores and played scrabble. For dinner we enjoyed finger foods and had traditional “meatish” delicacies like biltong (jerk beef) and goat. Some of us went to downtown Omaruru to shop for goodies for X-Mas, the town was a madhouse, I’ve never seen so many people in any town in Namibia as then. There were even street vendors selling food and wares. It was reminiscent of what I imagine a more densely populated African country would look like. We went swimming at Kaffeestube after lunch. Because the water was cloudy we invented a game called “swamp monster” where someone would drop into the water and sneak up on another person which Silas was particularly adept at.