Grit for sale
on Colm in Kenya (Kenya), 11/Jan/2010 10:21, 34 days ago
The problem with writing updates for your blog is knowing what people want to hear about. I try to think about what has happened over the past five weeks and think about what I might want to read about if someone else was in my position.I would not want to hear about my Christmas spent on Zanzibar with a group of volunteers– a sole male squeezed cosily in amongst a veritable bevy of beeeeeautiful young ladies, prancing about gaily in their ‘Liverpool Title Hopes’ brief swimming wear. Nor would I want to read about Christmas Dinner on a beach, drinking copious amounts of Gin and beer and the ‘I was Good asGold Mum. Honest!’ partying that followed (I was actually good as goldL).It would piss me off to read about New Years Eve at a full moon party on Diani beach with 3000 other people dancing to a night of dance music and pathetically oohing and aahhing at a coast full of fantastic fireworks. ‘Get me another jumper, I am fucking freezing’ I’d say on reading that the blogger spent in total almost three weeks off work on the beaches of the Indian ocean under glorious warm endless sunshine. ‘Minus 12, is it? what’s this? the blogger had a chef for a week bringing him fresh seafood for lunch and dinner??’ No sir, no need to tell anyone about that. An excellent week and loads of presents from a wonderful situation friend after Christmas.‘Whatever! Is my middle finger turning blue?’ I’d think.‘The snow was fun last week, no it’s just pissing me off’ I’d mutter whilst reading that when the blogger returned to work last Thursday, he was told that the office was to be closed until 1st February for renovations and all projects were on hold until then. ‘Birr, shudder, shiver…I’mnot in the slightest interested in any of that’ I’d think.‘But what’s this?’ – I read the blogger visited one of his women on Friday to find she is to lose her house this month and after losing her business premises (shack) on the 30th December and I’d think ‘That more like it! That’s the real Africa I want to read about. Not it being an incredible holiday destination to dream about under my 34 layers of clothes’ So let me just write a Aaron Lennon blog this time (Small, fast but not very good) and say that I had a dandy Christmas in Zanzibar and New Year in Tiwi in the company of good friends. Work is frustrating but the time off is giving us time to plan more and just because the office is closed, doesn’t mean some of our clients are not in need for urgent help. This some how is giving us work to do. 2010 is the year the World Cup comes to Africa for the first time, there’ll hopefully be news from Kenya of arrests (and no consequential unrest) following 2008 Post-election violence, a new Kenyan constitution and maybe even the ferries for Mombasa will finally arrive. At work, a full year where SCOPE BDS achieves a lot if not all its objectives. I look forward to telling you all about it in the weeks and months ahead - we're determined to achieve success.Most importantly, please, please, some silverware?Happy New Year everyone. Roll on the rest of 2010.