Rawr big spiders everywhere.Last night, instead of going to sleep, my professor and I took a taxi to Senegambia and went to the street with all the bars/"clubs." We ended up talking to a Nigerian guy named Johnson for 2 1/2 hours about religion and babies because he was just plain confused when we said we didn't want to get married, have kids, or follow a religion. I tried to explain that I respected the Bible's teachings but didn't take all that creation-in-seven-days jazz literally. So he started talking about Daniel and the lions and said that if I walked into a den of lions and prayed that I wouldn't be eaten and that he KNEW God made Eve from a bone. From that point on I was like "Well there's no point trying to reason with him." So I just said stuff to amuse myself, like asking him what would happen if I fell in love with another girl. I think I made his heart stop for about three seconds. After that he talked about Satan a lot and I just drank my Tom Collins.
BUT TODAY! Today was amazing. I had my first drum lesson. And I loved it so much. The other students have already had a lesson but I got everything right away and honestly I was pretty amazing. My teacher also makes drums so I'm buying one from him for about $50, and I'm going to ask him to carve elephants on it. I have another week of free lessons with the students and then he charges $3 an hour for drum lessons on the beach....awesome....
I've been eating with the students for free too and a usual meal consists of a lot of white rice, onion gravy, either chicken or fish, and then a fruit. But tonight I went with my professor to a French bistro on our street and I got the most delicious egg sandwich with a chocolate milkshake (they were out of nutella crepes). yum yum. There's also a place called McCaesar's and McFatty's, I must check them out.
Tomorrow I'm going out to do field research--transects and poop collection.
later gator
Sounds like you're having a good time and not really doing any work. How do I get a gig like that?
ReplyDeleteHi Meg! It's David...Two things: 1) I don't understand how you're eating better than me in Africa and 2) I refuse to believe there's even civilization in Africa, it goes against all of my beliefs and elementary public schooling in Virginia and Texas, I feel like the bible guy, there's no reasoning with me
ReplyDeleteSounds like you're having a good time though, live it up! Try not to get stoned by the locals with your progressive ideas :-)
Have fun!
judy! i work! i walked in the jungle for SIX HOURS today doing plant transects in the sweltering heat.
ReplyDeleteand HI DAVID
yeahh the food is actually pretty good, there were donuts for lunch today and by donuts i mean delicious chunks of fried doughy stuff..so really giant donut holes.