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I'm not sure if it's because our lives are different, or if we see life differently?
We take partying seriously now, not that we never partied back home in SA. We were out almost every weekend, somehow we took our surroundings for granted, maybe we took our friends for granted, we had house parties, and socialised in restaurants, we saw our friends maybe twice a month, and then we did our own thing. There were always things to do.
On Saturday, there was a Beerfest a little out of town, and almost everyone I knew attended, we knew a lot of people, and although we were at different tables, we made sure that we mingled. It was lots of fun! We arrived to find some people dressed in full Bavarian wear. The live "Lumpen" Band was playing. We sat in rows of benches, just like they do at the Oktoberfest. Our South African friends from Vodacom, who were in Berlin in October, and couldn't get into any of the Oktoberfest's, decided to dress up make up for their loss at the Kinshasa one. The greatest benefit, was all the beer and soda was included, so some folk filled up their "free beer mugs" as much as they could possibly consume. Later after midnight, the party got a bit wilder, my dear friend, Christoph, decided to pour some beer onto my lap, well while he wasn't expecting it a little while later, I opted to get him back, by giving him a "bee shower"! This took me back to my days when I was in the travel industry, I had so much fun at all the functions we had to attend. One of those stood out, I had a little row with my good friend, Kelly, at the time, and she threw a little cocktail at me, well I retaliated with a bigger cocktail, and at the beginning of the evening, she was drenched. She never spoke to me after that for quite a number of years. We now are FaceBook friends. I was so young, and carefree, and we really knew how to party. That is exactly what this life reminds me of, remembering how to party?
We take partying seriously now, not that we never partied back home in SA. We were out almost every weekend, somehow we took our surroundings for granted, maybe we took our friends for granted, we had house parties, and socialised in restaurants, we saw our friends maybe twice a month, and then we did our own thing. There were always things to do.
On Saturday, there was a Beerfest a little out of town, and almost everyone I knew attended, we knew a lot of people, and although we were at different tables, we made sure that we mingled. It was lots of fun! We arrived to find some people dressed in full Bavarian wear. The live "Lumpen" Band was playing. We sat in rows of benches, just like they do at the Oktoberfest. Our South African friends from Vodacom, who were in Berlin in October, and couldn't get into any of the Oktoberfest's, decided to dress up make up for their loss at the Kinshasa one. The greatest benefit, was all the beer and soda was included, so some folk filled up their "free beer mugs" as much as they could possibly consume. Later after midnight, the party got a bit wilder, my dear friend, Christoph, decided to pour some beer onto my lap, well while he wasn't expecting it a little while later, I opted to get him back, by giving him a "bee shower"! This took me back to my days when I was in the travel industry, I had so much fun at all the functions we had to attend. One of those stood out, I had a little row with my good friend, Kelly, at the time, and she threw a little cocktail at me, well I retaliated with a bigger cocktail, and at the beginning of the evening, she was drenched. She never spoke to me after that for quite a number of years. We now are FaceBook friends. I was so young, and carefree, and we really knew how to party. That is exactly what this life reminds me of, remembering how to party?
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