It’s taken me a number of days to recover from the annual event that is Tusker Safari Sevens! My chest & nose remain clogged but my spirit is surely still soaring over the Kenya 31-12 win over the defending champions the Emerging Boks of South Africa. Watching that game was indeed the culmination of the weekend as Kenya beat Fiji’s C team and continued to shine throughout the whole weekend tournament. Even our Team B Shujaa didn’t let us down and made it to the bowl final against Japan - who subsequently won but not without a fight.
Then there was the Virgin hospitality tent that was to tears! It was the event’s party zone for those who are too old to hang out in the Tusker Village. It was also fun walking around in full Virgin regalia including the coveted red Virgin wigs! This time round I was assisting with the Announcing of games, teams and scores on he smaller non-Kenyan games such as the ladies finals et al. It was a great learning curve and experience, thankfully shyness disappeared and apart from having to shout and run around I had tons of fun.
There was a surprise pre-birthday party in between all of that i.e. on Saturday evening/morning. They got me on that one for sure - kudos to them. The 2am tequilas didn’t help one bit as the next day commentating was proving difficult indeed. Sadly I suspect with the party having happened last weekend not many guys are psyched to share my actual birthday which is tomorrow and or go bungee jumping with me on Saturday @ Sagana. Honestly I am not a party person and would really have loved a crowd at the bungee stint - but we don’t get what we really want in life do we? Anyway I fear that my birthday shall be the same as it is every year… depressing! Urgh!
