Australia Day (yes i know it was a month ago)

Another quick story I forgot to mention was right after I arrived. I came in on the Saturday and was told on the way back from the airport that they had organized a party for me on the Tuesday. Little did they know that Tuesday was the 26th of January which also happens to be Australia day!

Suffice to say the co-incidence was remarkable but I needed to do something to mark the day. It was my first Nigerian party and since no-one was likely to bring very much at all I made sure we went out and bought a few drinks (Nigerian Guinness in fact) and some food. The food was going to be a problem at short notice first of all because Australian's aren't known world-wide for our cuisine and secondly whatever ingredients I would have liked aren't really available. But I got as close to I could to re-creating and Aussie BBQ.

Lucky I did because almost no-one else did bring food like they were supposed to. The "snags" in question tasted a bit like hot dogs but I think it went down well. I threw my Australian flags up and made the most of it.

The party was otherwise great, I met a whole host of aiesecers for the first time, and I got my first taste of the dancing culture here. More on that later but to summarise – I can't dance, and everybody else can. Ok maybe that's a slight exaggeration. There were one or two people who didn't want to dance, but the majority can, and look good at it. I'm not a big fan generally. But I did try. But yeah more on that another time.