Friday, August 10, 2012

Leslie the Great and the Rain


I just went to the tailor to get the sweatshirt he made me altered a little. On the way I saw a woman with a baby at Yohanna’s house so I decided to stop by and see Leslie. Christina invited me into her room and invited me to pick up Leslie. Leslie was sleeping but Christina woke her up to say hi. She was still really sleepy though so I put her back down on the bed to sleep. Of course when I put her back down she woke up and was wriggling around so I picked her up again. It turned out she was restless cause she needed to go potty. I thought she had just farted until I felt a wet spot spreading on my leg… Then I quickly excused myself to go change my pants because there was pee running down my leg.

When I got back to camp I told Yohanna that his baby had peed on me. He thought that that was hilarious and told me that that was good luck. He said that he used to hold babies all of the time and thought it was great when they peed on him. Apparently I’m going to have a baby girl now because Leslie peed on me.

After taking a shower I was cold so I tried to shut the window. The handle broke off and flew into my face. I don't think I have a bruise though... I hope not. I don't need to look like I was beaten.

Once I realized my face was okay I went down the road to join the soccer game. It was wet and muddy and awesome. So much for it being the dry season. It had just finished pouring when I left camp and the field was a bit of a mud pit. I had a solid quarter inch of mud permanently affixed to the bottom of my shoe. Andrew tried to head the ball and it just slid off his head so half his face was covered in mud. Everyone was sliding everywhere and running really awkwardly because they had no traction. Vidasto said we looked like a bunch of buffalo. Apparently buffalo can't turn very well? Marissa started drawing pictures in the mud with a piece of corn stalk and yelling at us all to not step on them. Then she ended up stepping on the main one. It was great. Soon after the pictures got ruined we called it a game and headed back for dinner. We got back to camp too late to shower so we all went to dinner covered in mud. Everyone else was shocked at how messy we were. It was awesome :D

2 comments:

  1. Wow,it sounds like you saw a ton more animals in the Serengeti this time! That is so cool! Your 'myd fest' when you got back to camp sounds crazy! Did you hear that a Massai runner from Kenya got a gold medal in the Olympics??

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  2. I did! I was talking to some of the Kenyan Maasai about that. One of them said they went to school with that man.

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