Today is laundry day for me. Thank God because I have no clean clothes left. I've been wearing the same pair of pants for two days now which is disgusting but unfortunately not uncommon around here. There is a community chest of clothes but I haven't worked up the nerve to dig into it yet. My pride won't let me. But I don't think that I can wake up another morning and put on clothes that have already been babooned. Since I'm not on the schedule today I think I'll just walk around and take some pictures and avoid getting any dirtier.
Susan, the pre-vet student adopted a baby vervet monkey with a concussion to try and nurse it back to health. It's adorable and tiny. She named him Marley.
I finished reading "A Primate's Memoir" and started reading "The Tribe of Tiger". It's making me miss my cats. That's what this place is missing, a cat. It could help with all of the rats, which I no longer have any sympathy for. Listening to them scurrying around at night really does make me want to go home.
It's cool today. And there's a nice breeze. I'm sitting upstairs on the balcony of the lodge looking out over the river. It's a pretty amazing view. The slight smell of wood (what the beams of the lodge are made of) really makes it feel like I'm just away at camp. Molly, one of Rita's dogs is barking at the wild baboons outside of the gate. I can hear the workers talking to each other down the hil in the feedroom even though I can't understand any of it. It's a lazy day. It feels like it should be a weekend. But really, weekends don't mean much around here. We have to take care of the baboons every day, obviously. But the days are very relaxed. We do a few hours of work and just enjoy each others company for the rest of the time. It still seems surreal to actually be in Africa.
It's 10:30 at night. Marley, the baby vervet monkey died a few hours ago. Susan was here watching him with Holly and Howie. Michaela, Zurika, Stephen and Elena stayed behind too. The rest of us went out to dinner at a resteraunt called Spurs to celebrate a woman named Beverly's last night with us. Spurs is sort of like South Africa's version of Applebees. We all hopped in the back of Sue's pickup truck, at night, and rode into town. It was great. There night sky here is amazing. I've never seen so many stars out! And we saw at least three shooting stars! I'm a little too tired to get into all of the details now, but everyone had a good time.
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