Everything in the airplane is orange, including, as unfair as it may seem, the flight attendants miniskirts. If Hooters, myspace, and Fanta all joined forces to start an airline THIS WOULD BE IT!
LOST and FOUND in translation.
Here are some conversations we've had that may be the answers to the world's greatest questions, OR they may be the reasons why we were all confused in the first place, the jury is still out so we'll let you be the judge.
Scenario 1: TRUTLE MIDWIFERY
Not the most obvious of professions, but a noble one none the less. One night on the beach a weathered sea captain explained to us the ancient art of being a turtle midwife. After being shown, through extensive diagrams drawn in the sand....(Put the food here....here...there...and a little back here...) we can proudlysay if there was a struggling turtle in labor we could rise to the occasion and deliver an astounding preformance of turtle midwifery.
Scenario 2: Did you eat chicken for breakfast?
This morning before boarding the plane a man asked Molly if she had eaten chicken for breakfast. This is exactly how the conversation progressed:
Man: Did you eat chicken for breakfast?
Molly: No, I had mahamri
Man: Oh, because you are sweating a lot....
And that was it. We think this means that if you eat chicken, especially during the early hours of the day, you are likely to sweat profusely for the rest of the day which is especially disconcerting
to those of us who can no longer wear deoderant (see awkward health issues).
Scenario 3: 800 KILOMETERS
Running in Kenya is no joke. One day when Elan and Will were standing on the beach and a man ran up to them basically yelled in their faces... I AM RUNNING.....I AM RUNNING 800 KILOMETERS... then sprinted off... He only made it about maybe 100 KILOMETERS!
Scenario 4: Octapus in a bag.
The other day when we were walking down this street in Lamu, and when we say street what we really mean is a walkway about four feet wide surrounded by super tall buildings, when a man approached us and said "look into my bag!" We thought he was trying to sell us something, like candy or peanuts, but we were wrong. Before we even got close enough to look into his bag he looks up at us, with a big toothless grin and said "it's a dead octapus" and left laughing away.
Awkward health issues
1)Wills worm
2)Clogged Armpits
3) Barfing into squatty potties (looking at you Sofi)
4) Dysentary(Molly)
5) Awkward/Terrifying visits to the hospital, to find that her 104.6 degree fever was due to a low count in white bloodcells (ELAN)
6)Hundreds of mosqutio bites
7) Barfing off of boats (also ELAN)
8)Numb big toes(Molly and Alison)
9)Constipation
10) Inflamed kidneys and intestine, and a possible kidney stone (molly)
No big deal....
Were back in Mombasa now, working on our Inependent Study Projects and doing our urban homestays.... We'll try to be better at blogging!
XOXO,
Gossip Invalids
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