Funny how people agonize about expenses as holidays approach everyone knows that last minute shopping entails lots of hassles and rapid depletion of the wallet. Me and some friends after going through the cycles have come up with a fool proof plan to beta the holiday blues. We started collections for our kircha [ rough translation: a group of people pitching money together to buy a bull and share the meat usually for holidays] a month ago.
Getting people to commit financially was a challenge but extreme situations do require extreme measures so our venue for collecting dues was put at the local bar where people come to frequent for a constant reminder the pub owner chastises guys who pledged to pay in installments whenever they were late. Your truly, moi 
have already paid the whole amount and plan to slaughter the bull at my parents’ house- slight complication is that my parents know there is meat coming to them but have not yet been told that the party is at their residence. We plan to buy the bull in pagume the last month of the year and the bull might be housed in my parents’ home till new year’s eve.
I am not worried I will however need to negotiate with my parents on how to go about the whole affair. Plus I never hosted a party at home so it would be a nice experience to see if I have in me to be host at a social function plus if a success I would have enough fodder for bragging to my friends that have not yet decided what to do for the holiday and the bonus? I beta the holiday blues with not even a dent on my monthly finances.
In other news we finally have water in our home for the past four months my neighborhood’s pipes were broken due to a construction of a proposed road. i say proposed road because construction started, the earth was turned and suddenly someone remembered that roads are not during the rainy season. At first we started borrowing water from neighbors that were not affected later on we started using water from the remains of the mangled pipes it was easy the guys just plugged in pieces of wood to stop teh crazy water works. I never knew water was so precious plus taking a shower was becoming an applied science of measurement where you had to put the right proportions of hot and cold water to take a bath using a pitcher- A friend calls it enashenifalen- like when people chant slogans with their fist in the air. I never imagined listening to your toilet flushing would be music to your ears.
