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hi guys, well we are now at kande beach, lake malawi.
lets see, last time i wrote, i said we got rid of 2 of the masters, and beth, well we now have hayley and bob-english, who we get on really well with, and hannah-aussie- who is a lazy cow!
no offence to aussies!.
after leaving nairobi-again, we went to tanzania, beautiful roads! no rocks. we have now been to the ngorong crater-that was excellent, we saw lions,hippos,hyenas, we even saw hyenas and vultures fighting over a kill.
we went to kind of a bush camp one night, and stayed right by a river full of crocs, (never saw any), so as usual in the evening- but with a new truck, we had the music and lights on the truck going all night, and got pissed, me jo, hayley and bob- have started having tps (tent parties), so we left everyone going at the truck- stupid gits didnt turn anything off, so in the moring we had a flat battery, plus the truck was in a little ditch, the only way to get it started again was to push, my god, there are 2 big guys, a skinny tour leader and 6 girls and we all had to try and push this enourmous truck that sits 24 people-has a beach area at the front( a shelf with lots of mattresses, and the roof opens, so you can sunbath), all the kitchen,camping equipment underneath, plus our s***, than the drivers cabin at the front, so ofcourse after an hour and half of pushing and not getting it out of the little ditch we were still stuck there! In the end 10 local guys from a nearby village turned up and within a couple of minutes we were out of the ditch and the engine was going-yay
we than headed for dar, which is where you catch the ferry for zanzibar, we spent the night there, and got flooded out of our s*** tents, than went over to zanzibar for 5 nights- of rain all night until lunchtime, than sunbath from lunch till dark, had food poisioning there a few times, nothing unusal about that now. i got a henna of a dragon going from the back of my neck down my back, the head is cool, as that is on my neck, but how shes's done the tail looping around, it makes the dragon look like its on a wheel-very weird, but i'm considering getting a little dragon tattoo on the back of my neck now- i like it.
we got the ferry back to dar xmas day, and for dinner had a pig on spit, got drunk, swapped secret santa pressies,than went to bed earlyish-had to leave 6am. and now we are here at kande, we have had another flat battery and had to push the damn truck again.
toinght after dinner (new years eve) we are all dressing up in hideous outfits, it's supposed to be like secret santa, but i know who everyone has bought for, so i have seen on the washing line what clothes i'll be wearing tonight- its disgusting- its a dress from marks and spencers but 80's era, its thick, has shoulder pads, black top half and tartan bottom half, and has absolutely no shape to it at all-revolting. i went to the clothes market with hayley and bob, so bob who has hannah- he calls her a simpleton, he bought her this horrible skin tight shinny jumpsuit - its black, but the back has bright pink and green stripes going down it-she will hate it. i bought for the 3rd master- so i was evil- it's cream kind of silky and see through, has a white crochet collar, and it looks like a potato sack with elastic around the middle so the top half hangs over, plus i bought her a red noddy hat-but i think i've also got a red noddy hat with my dress. jo is dressing the driver, so she's got him a tiny see through top and skirt- he doesnt own any undies- so jo wants me to donate one of mine. she wants mine-as 3 of them have that horrible damp smell where they havent dried properly, so robin will probably end up with one of mine to wear and hide his bits (until he's drunk and will flash all of us anyway), he also has a headband and leg warmers, (the leg warmers were the sleves of the top). Its so stressful, worrying what clothes i will have to wear, but now i've seen the hideous thing and know its not skimpy i'm fine.
Hayley and i are cooking partners, yesterday, we did the full day, we started off with bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, lunch was toasted sandwiches, and last night we did spicy veg pasta- and it was spicy! we were going to use some giant mushrooms but they ended up with maggots all over them, and had to be thrown away, i tell you the dinner was stressful, neither of us can cook, and we were worried and not having any sauce, but everyone loved it and went back for seconds. But last week i was parters with hannah, and hayley was with jen (3rd master), it was so awful, hannah said to me when it was our cooking turn for dinner, that we'll make something simple- it took 4 1/2 hoursto prepare!- in the meantime everyone was absolutley hammered, it was a horrible night for me,i ended up going to bed early while all the others carried on getting even more hammered, i couldnt see the pont in going to the bar completley sober while everyone else were off ther're trolleys, and hannah who is about to turn 21 in a couple of days, is the most boring person i have ever met, and always goes to bed early, and it was also horrible because, i was washing potatos, peeling carrots than grating the carrots, fetching this and that, and they didnt even taste very nice- they were supposed to be potato friters- i think jo and emily got the s***s from them, so when it was suggested by the master that we sawp cooking partners, i made sure it happened- i'm not cooking for 4 1/2 bloody hours ever ever ever again.
oh i also have a new name, -its nana, no one calls me hayley at all except anton- the skinny tour leader, its cause emily said i looked like a nan when i'm asleep on the truck with my blanket wrapped around me, so they are always singing to me nana cool instead of daddy cool, or call me nana mango because i drank a mango juice once! i did try to ignore them at first when they started calling me nana, but seeing as everyone with exception to the tour leader, and when we arrive at each camp my bar tab is set up under nana by the driver, i've just given in to it now- its useless to fight them. I wont win this fight.
anyway better go, before theres another power surge and the computer goes off again. have a good new years, and hope xmas was good. xx
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