//
Apparently some researchers had come to the village a few years back to test for HIV. Something like 30% were infected.
Andrew didn’t get a girl that night. I was glad after learning that.
We woke up early the next morning and I was doing okay but Andrew was upset because he slept poorly. His shirt was drenched even though he wasn’t wearing it and it hadn’t even been near him. I think we started eating breakfast sometime around 7am in a large covered area with everyone else from SAS. I didn’t have much and I would have done anything for a cup of milk or two. I think I mostly ate the cereal that I brought from the ship – Unfronsted Mini-Wheats.
That’s right. Unfrosted Mini-Wheats. They exist.
We said goodbye to our hosts and took pictures. Some hosts were getting kind of touchy with the girls and many were starting to feel annoyed and creeped out by it. Pius had to leave early to go organize the next meeting of SAS kids coming later that day. I should add, ‘cuz I thought of it, we stopped by his shop at one point yesterday to see the phones and movies he sold. Anyhow. I gave the remainder of the gifts I brought to a woman so she could give them to kids. Maybe she’d pick the nice ones or something. A lot of kids were not very talkative at all this morning.
We got on the bus and took a two hour or so ride to see monkeys in another village.
Apparently we’re one of the largest tour groups that ever goes to Torgorme. Sometimes they just take one person at a time. That seems way more fun. Just saying.
The monkeys are called Mana Monkeys. We used the bathroom when we showed up because it had been a while but they boys’ part didn’t flush. Luckily I used it only second. Then I went back and sat on a bench and watched kids play soccer with a black ball in 100F weather as if it were nothing. There was a school behind them that seemed very open to the elements, which is probably good in
Our tour guide was really good at making the noise to attract monkeys. They looked like they were wearing hipster glasses, and they jumped all over the place. Sometimes they made a branch fall more than they thought they would and that was pretty cute. If you just held out your hand they would come take the banana right from you and then go eat it ten feet away. Our guide’s name was Emmanuel and he told us about how the people here used to live in the mountains, then came and left their stuff here to go fight, and when it came back it was in perfect condition and so they decided the place was sacred and settled in it. The monkeys were the messengers from the local deity, so they were sacred to. He also thanked us profusely for coming since tourism helps so much for them to build schools and get health care and teachers and stuff along those lines. I sat and watched the kids play some more.
Exit Through The Gift Shop. (not everyone)
We got back on the bus to go to lunch.
It was a pretty long ride. The place we went to had another SAS bus leaving as we showed up. It was right on the river, after crossing a small bridge, though the river was wide and up against a mountain. It was a really pretty view and I picked the chair I did so that I could see the river. Later I realized how hot the seat was even though it was covered and wished that maybe I had taken a seat closer to a fan. My table was slow to realize the food was ready so we just sat around waiting for a while. They had French fries again and they were very popular. I forget what else they had. We almost all got ice cream at the end. I got the standard treat, vanilla ice cream on a stick with chocolate coating. Can’t go wrong with that. I still hadn’t gotten any Cedis (
We got back on the bus for the long ride home. We stopped in a couple places to try to find
It was nice to be back on the ship. That shower felt amazing. I don’t even like showering.
No comments:
Post a Comment