The Nerd's Eye View

Dec 24th Khartoum Sudan

It doesn't feel like Christmas at all as I'm sure you can imagine. Last night as I drove home with my uncle from day 3 of the wedding of the season, we passed by All Saints' Cathedral which was blocked off from the street by a mass of - you guessed it - white cars. When we got home, and bedded down for the night I could hear the doorman's radio outside my window. There were interviews from the South, where Sudan radio had stationed reporters in the southern capital, Juba and Abyei where last week shots were fired. They interviewed the man on the street who seemed pleased to be in the media and proud of a peaceful Christmas, finally. Beyond that the only other Christmas-y thing was the incongruous presence of a mechanical Santa Claus outside an appliance store.