Today is going to be rainy. It is already damp. The weather is warmish, in the 50's. The clouds are a light gray, not so ominous. I have a concert today at 5, but I need gas and a few groceries, including dog canned food, so I'll go early and shop.
I don't remember the first time I made it to midnight on New Year's Eve, the first time I got to ring in the new year which is, if you think about it, quite a responsibility. We made a racket with our metal noisemakers. I spun mine for all I was worth. Out with the old. In with the new.
When I was older, I went to New Year's Eve parties. We all did. I remember the hoopla at midnight, the toast, the yelling of Happy New Year and the kissing. One New Year's Eve my mother and I did first night in Reading, the town next to hers. It was fun. We went to a few venues then stopped for dinner and had Chinese, traditional for New Year's Eve. The last half of the evening we traveled all over town. We lasted until midnight.
I have no collection of celebrating New Year's in Ghana other than dinner with friends. We were on school holiday, and I usually traveled to Accra then points east, Togo and Benin, Dahomey in my day. I'd run into friends I hadn't seen in a while at the hostels in Accra and Lome, Togo, and we'd get together for dinner. I ate a lot of bifteck and pomme frites in restaurants along the water in Lome. I also remember a lobster dinner in Lome. The lobster had been grilled, first time I ever had it that way. In Accra, the treat was Chinese food, a few times of the year.
Tonight I'll be home after the concert. I'll be awake at midnight as I usually am, and I'll welcome the new yer and make some noise. I always hope that every new year will be better than the old year.
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