Dinner with the Prime Minister

Food , Fun, Friends

I wish days like these could happen more often. Where to start? hummm

So early this week we got word from the embassy that the Prime Minister, Mr Daniel Kablan Ducan was going to be in New Delhi for some kind of summit with investors. Well nothing interesting here as far as I am concerned. And as he will be here, the Ambassador organized a dinner at his residency, with the Prime Minister, the group of other ministers he came with, and almost every ambassador of the surrounding west African countries. And that's the part that I am interested in!!

First of all, the invitation said dinner, with ministers and some ambassadors. Well an invitation like this calls for proper attire, and as much as I don't like being dressed "formal", I just couldn't turn out with jeans and sneakers. So I went out and got me something "decent" for the occasion. As usual nothing fancy, just the strict minimum. Went out with the classic mix of colors, grey shirt+black pants+black loafers.

I could have never thought that one day i would end up dressing like this, and specially wear loafers. But yeah, growing up has it surprises.

Now that the outfit issue was sorted out, it was time to get the the rendez-vous point and get the business going. The invitation said that the whole ceremony was starting at 6 PM. So me and my friends managed to get ready and left home at 5.30 PM, and as we don't know where the residency was, we had to catch up with the bus (leaving at 6 PM) that was picking up people from the embassy to the residency. With all the high traffic density zones that we had to cross, we were bound to be late and probably miss the bus. But, as we all know Africans conception of time, we did our best and managed to reach the embassy little after 6.

And to no one surprise, the bus was still empty and they were still waiting for people to come.

After waiting for like and hour at the embassy we decided to rely on our phones and get to the residency ourselves. Which turned out to be a good decision, because 30 mins after we reached the place, after few inquiries on the way though.

After reaching at around 7.30 PM, it appears that we were so early that even the music wasn't there yet! But that was not surprising, so we waited and around 9 PM the delegation finally arrived. And things got started.

 The Ambassador giving his Speech

 The Prime Minister Giving his speech

The Prime Minister and the Health Care Minister

So yeah there was that, then after the whole speech part was done, we  went to the most interesting event. And that is: Food!

A well garnished plate with all that I was interested in (Attieke+Alloco+Chicken+Mutton)

After all the food I managed to get in my stomach, i was full like a retard and could barely move! But had to stand up to the challenge and crank some dance moves, because that's the one of the thing we Africans do after eating, dancing or sleeping!

And that's how we ended the evening.