To fight off the holiday blues, I traveled to Kara Christmas Eve in order to spend the holiday with my good friends from my training class, Peter and David. Kara is the capital of the Kara region, which is just north of the Central Region where I am posted. Though smaller than my regional capital, Sokodé, a wider variety of alimentation can be found in Kara because of it's larger expat population. Further, the president's family is from Kara and it therefore receives more attention from the government.
So on Christmas Eve we dined at “La Douceur” and enjoyed scalloped pork and roasted potatoes. We then woke up Christmas morning, munched on cookies and fruitcake, and listened to Christmas carols played on my computer. Afterwards, we began our preparations for Christmas dinner. While the scalloped potatoes were cooking, we played Simpsons' Monopoly and drank gin & soda. Peter won.
After stuffing ourselves on steak, spinach and potatoes, we took the traditional nap. Wrapping up the festivities, we watched “It's a Wonderful Life” and enjoyed warm apple crisp.
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