Saturday, May 19, 2012

Hrmm


STILL no hippo. I think the hippo yesterday was mocking us. I have another boil on my elbow. This is getting a wee bit annoying.

In other news, Lahai, one of our field assistants, has chicken pox. A lot of the people in Mapuma have it apparently. So we had to send him home, since a lot of people at the research station have not had it. I think he was a little embarrassed because we kept telling him not to touch things. I didn’t even realize what it was he had – he just explained that he had a fever when he arrived, and we all went into the forest (I pretended to be a hippo today so they could track me) and he found me, he lifted up his shirt to show me. And then I realized we had something entirely different from malaria on our hands. We just hope we contained it in time so that nobody else gets sick.

So that’s all the news for now…I craved a crispy salad today. 

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