Election Day

Thursday, December 27

So today was the long-awaited election day, declared a public holiday along with tomorrow, making 4 public holidays in a row with Christmas and Boxing Day. Gloria, my sisters’ friend whom I’ve hung out with a lot in the past few weeks and I took a walk downtown to see if we could find an internet café and buy some juice, but pretty much everything was closed. The city was such a ghost town, so different from the downtown I’m used to, even on Sundays when it’s relatively empty. There weren’t even any buses or matatus running, making everything super quiet. We managed to find a cyber café, but even 24 hour Nakumatt, the grocery store was closed foiling the juice plans. So we just walked around for a bit at a snail’s pace because the heat was so blazing and checked out everyone’s pinkie fingers to see if they voted. They mark your right-hand pinkie finger with this blue indelible ink that doesn’t come off for a week when you vote so that you can’t vote again. So I was having fun looking to see which people had, pretty much everyone I saw had. Now they have constant election coverage until they finish counting which is supposed to be probably completed by tomorrow morning.