Another Africa Night has come and gone and we are back to business as usual! This edition was the shy edition. This is a very new experience for us. More about this later. But first about a pleasant, almost forgotten, experience. For the first time in ages, our guests actually started trickling in on time. Much so that by the time it was 23.30 hours, the hall was already half full. You could imagine our surprise. 23.00 hours is usually the benchmark hour when guests usually start to come in. And usually around 23.30 the trickle becomes faster so that by 00.30 the hall is then almost full. The October crowd decided to be the early crowd. As you can then guess, we had a full house.
This brings us to our earlier point. From our experience, even there are 10 people in the hall, you will always find some, if not all of them on the dance floor at any given time. Not this time. Even though we had already close to 100 people by 23.30 hours, it was like the guests were wary of the dance floor! It could not have been the music because the dj was good. It was like no one wanted to be the first on the dance floor. On the other hand, it could have been that they were just happy to look at the video music show on the wall. We had a video show again like we had in September. You could see that a lot of our guests found this fascinating. For us it felt like it was distracting, but the client is king. Still we were under the impression that we had a lot of shy customers this time around.
Once the first person got over the stage fright and made acquaintance with the dance floor, there was no stopping the others! It was another memorable night full of new guests from far and wide. There was this group of Kenyan ladies of which one of them actually came from Germany just to attend our show. At the end of the evening, they all promised that we have not seen the last of them. Cool!
We got perhaps our biggest compliment of the night from a contingent from Belgium. Apparently, one Belgian lady remarked, you have a very unique set up. “That, I think, is why yours is the only show of substance in town.” She then went on to explain that all other places where the same type of music is played that she and her friends know, have gone out of business. From what she hears, we are not only the only show in town, but we have always been better than the rest. This lady made our night! Belgium, you are the bomb!
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