2/3/2010

We had a “day off” today! It started at 8, when people who were up for breakfast were talking too loud and woke me up. We had a really good breakfast (although they had no turkey bacon, and I was sad), and then just sat around chatting about the party the night before. At 10 we did yoga, and oh my god was it hard. Lots of core muscles I don’t have being put to use in ways I never would have even thought of. It felt good and awful at the same time.
After lunch, we went on a walk with Graeme, who is crazy. We knew that we would be walking through water, and that it would possibly be higher than our waists. What we didn’t know is that the water would also contain grass blades that would destroy our legs worse than if we took knives to them. Ok, not really, but they hut a lot. Everyone was just covered in slices. After the razor blade water, we walked from 2 until 630, trekking through areas of the vley that we had never seen, and were really off the beaten path. While there, we saw many birds, lots of dung beetles, a brown water snake (yes, I saw the first snake of the trip, all hail me), and a cloud of giraffe. Who were mating. Lawl. We also saw a hamerkop nest, which are interesting because they have two parts—one for their eggs, and one for a snake. I’m not exactly sure why.
At the end of the walk, we met up with everyone who didn’t go, and did “sundowners,” which is where people gather, drink beer, and watch the sun go down. Pretty self explanatory. It was nice, but those of us who had gone on the walk just wanted to go lie down and soak our legs. We finally went back to camp, and all over could be heard the screams of people washing their sore, cut legs. After dinner, I was lucky enough to take part in a euchre game, and even more so, as we won. Then I watched some magic tricks performed by Evan G, and then we watched V for Vendetta. I am going to sleep either SO well or SO poorly tonight. Words of the day: Eggs = Madanza, Good food = Shakooja Sakacha (ch = glottal)