Selling lottery tickets and Swedish specialties.
Saturday was a fun, but busy day. We started the day out early, going to the Swedish school with prizes for the raffle, Swedish candy and caviar to sell and my poster from Excellent school. We started by hanging all the posters. This is one of the demands from the Swedish Association, every project that has received support need to display the result on the Christmas Market.
The board were busy with setting up the tables for selling the Swedish products, setting up the café and restaurant where Swedish christmas food would be sold.
I continued by helping out with organizing the prizes for the raffle. A lot of companies around Nairobi had donated the prizes and some of them were really good. Like two nights at a resort on the beach and a painting from a well known local artist. The other Scandinavian countries were also participating, and it was a lot of fun to see what they were selling. The Market opened by noon and I spent the next four hours selling lottery tickets, helping out in the kitchen, manning the tents were we were selling things and chatting with Swedish people. I had a good day, but was dead tired when I got home.
The money earned will go to projects in Kenya, another opportunity for me to apply for funds to Excellent. school.
I had a good time, but I also worked really hard and sold all the lottery tickets. It was nice to talk to a lot of people from the Scandinavian countries and there were many familiar faces. It was however, hard work and I was dead tired after the market. Even though I enjoyed it, I'm glad this event only comes around once a year!
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