Ferias (Dec 2007-Dec 2008)

Sumario
After being placed in Lichinga, Niassa I traveled to Nampula by chapa and train to spend the holidays with some volunteers in Angoche. We spent our holidays relaxing on the beach, singing christmas carols on Dhows, gaming, sharing christmas traditions, making movies, having odd interactions with Mozambicans, fishing, taking pictuesgetting weird, rolling down sand dunes, burying treasure, dj-ing, festejaring, tuchering, and decorating my friend Alex's house.

Historias


Tucher- When New Years came the only ones left in Angoche were Hans, Alex, Nia, and myself. We didnt have any big plans for the night, and it seemed like we would take in the New Year with some intense gaming (This would have been a perfect way to spend New Year's or any day for that matter). But, earlier in the week we had talked to the Dono of the local pub "Tucher", and, jokingly, we told him that I was a DJ of international notoriety. He was obviously impressed and invited us to return on New Years to mix some music. We had initially written this off, but as the night wore on and our options were dwindling, we decided to make a cd and go check out Tuchers. This may have been the best decision of our lives. As soon as we entered the bar we were ushered onto the dance floor, and the owner put me behind some state of the art dj equipment (had this been December 31, 1987). After a brief orientation I was behind the wheels armed with the Dono's conspicuous CD collection. He had musica romantica, Mozambican pop music, and lots of bad music from the 1990s. Needless to say, I was in my element. Rod Stewart, Milli Vanilli, Akon, R Kelly, Phil Collins, and Bryan Adams kept the party going until the wee hours of the morning. The highlights of the night were receiving free Tuchers, the count down to the new year, and the dance move of the year where this guy got down on his knees with his hands reaching for the heavens belting "Summer of 69" by Bryan Adams with prodigious gusto.