Worked at Bijilo yesterday and watched some tourists feeding peanuts to the monkeys. It was so bad, the monkeys were sitting on this dude's shoulders. The monkeys are going to get weird parasites and not be able to forage for themselves and then get fat and die. Walked to the beach after and fell asleep on the sand in my field pants. Woke up, had some ataya with these three guys and Elena, and then walked home carrying honeysuckles. My friend Musa called me and said he was collecting me from my apartment. It's weird driving in cars after taking bush taxis everywhere. Went to C-Block with 2 students and Musa + his friends where we bought a $3 box of wine from this guy who sells alcohol out of his compound and sat in the street drinking with the other customers. Then we drove to Senegambia in a presidential car and got waved through all the highway checkpoints. We listened to some live music and danced at WOW a whole lot. Drove to Musa's friend's house at 3 am. I fell asleep on a random mattress and was woken up only to see three large dudes eating a huge pot of ramen noodles and rocking out to Celine Dion. Then I was handed a banana they had just picked off their banana tree. It was delicious.
I can't explain today but it was really nice. I went swimming, walked the beach with Christy and just met cool people who I would actually want to hang out with later. They work the beach juice stands and we had some ataya with them. We found out that they make baobab milkshakes.
This post seems really incoherent. Oh well.
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