Happy New Year

A belated Merry Christmas to all of you out there! At least I'm just in time to wish you all a happy and prosperous 2006!!

FYI: This whole thing with the y and z being the other waz around isn't on purpose, it's the kezboards here that have these kezs the other waz round. And I don't really feel like correcting myself everztime...

After almost three weeks of shagz, I'm back in the green city in the sun (I know that slogan can't really be used any more, I just felt like using it for old times' sake). Today in four weeks time I will be preparing myself to fly back to that Swityerland. That means I'm halfway through mz stay at home. I'm not complaining, just mentioning it. OK fine, it sucks that I'm halfway through my holidays. But I guess with 8 weeks, I really shouldn't be complaining...

Shagz still is the place for me! I don't know whether I would feel differentlz on this shagz/towo thing if Nairobi was "more to my liking". I just have the feeling that I wouldn't enjoz mzself in Nai as much as I would back home. But I guess it's a different story when you're thinking about living there as a zoung person. But since I'm talking about the time when I'm about 50 or sth, it's shagz...

Christmas at home means two things: a lot of people and a lot of nyam chom! My mom has 3 brothers and 1 sister - and that means quite a number of people coming together at my grandparents' place. After the three weeks with all my cousins, I must admit that I'm looking forward to the time I'll spend there alone in January as the only grandchild. Nothing against mz cousins, but zou know, kids can sometimes be a bit loud...

As far as the nyam chom part is concerned, I feel sorry for all the goats and cows that are slaughtered every year during the festive season. Everytime I'm shagz watching the goat being slaughtered, I ask mzself whether these goats see it coming. Do thez know that once everz zear we celebrate the birth of Christ and in some areas this comes with roasted meat having to be on the table? Or any other occasion, do thez sense their time's up? Just asking... Warm nyam chom with kachumbari is obviously tops! But cold nyam chom a few days after being roasted also isn't bad...

Happy New Year!!