If someone says "2 days!" to you in Nigeria, it means that they haven't seen you in quite a while, I'm so sorry its been so long since i last blogged!
I will be blogging a few posts to get you all up-to-date. Let me tell you about Christmas first:
So, back home we dream of a white Christmas, with snow flakes falling on the ground. Myself and a couple of friends - one from England and the other from America gave a whole village a white Christmas and it lasted for 1 whole week! - How? I hear you ask?...By us spending Christmas in their village! ;-)
Japheth, a very special friend, kindly invited the 3 of us to spend Christmas with his family. His village is called Kamwai, and it's in an area called Bokkos, in Plateau State.
Kamwai is beautiful! Its set in the valleys and its surroundings are stunning. Its such a peaceful part of the country!
We had such a special time in the village - We went on an adventure through the bush, made it across what the locals call "the monkey bridge" (put together with logs, reeds and planks of wood) It was quite the experience, but a great feeling when we made it to the other side! We went to a powerful Christmas Eve and Christmas day service in the village church, which consisted of a lot of dancing, especially during the offering! On Christmas day we ate a lot and then we did some exercise afterwards - TRIBAL DANCING! :-) This is what I had been looking forward to for weeks! We danced our way to the Chief of the villages house with the whole village community! We danced for around 2 hours! This was the most energetic Christmas day I have ever had! The Kakas (elderly women) managed to dance for a lot longer than that! We had a lot of fun dancing and probably could have kept going had it not been for the dust we were all inhaling, which was due to dust been kicked off the ground as so many were dancing. We had a true African Christmas. I LOVED my time there! I hope to be spending Easter in Kamwai!
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