The Internet hasn't been working here since Christmas Eve. This is how I spent my Christmas in the 40 degree Celsius heat during the day (but pleasantly in the 20s in the evenings).
Top picture is me celebrating having baked a chocolate cake for the Christmas Eve potluck party. My mom thought I wasn't paying attention all those times she baked cakes when I was young! The only shortcoming was the icing, I had to use real sugar and I didn't stir it enough, it was still kind of granular. My thanks to Dawn the UNMO who left me the cake mixes when I arrived in Juba and she was leaving, and my friend Betty for the Santa Clause hat.
Second photo is the Christmas Eve party. I was going to go t midnight mass afterward but of course I didn't make it there.
Third photo is Christmas morning, I was invited to the Filipino Christmas Mass as they are all Catholic. I baked another cake for the lunch afterward, got up at 7:00 o' clock to do it, but the cake hadn't cooled down when I put icing on it so the icing ran a bit in the back of the police vehicle....Thanks again Dawn for the cakes and the cocoa which I used to make the icing.
Enyways, in this photo I'm arriving at the convent where the mass was held with my cakes.
Fourth photo is me talking to someone right after mass; of course all the Filipinos broke out their cameras and started taking pictures. They are the only Christian nation in Asia which makes them unique but they are so typically Asian, taking millions of pictures at every event and eating rice with everything.
And the fifth photo is me doing the dishes for the Sisters so they wouldn't have to do them. It took about an hour. And after that? Karaoke of course! It was a Filipino Christmas Mass after all.
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