Goats and Pizza

We got up at 9am, got showered, dressed and sat down to eat by 10.10 (we figured Lee would be a bit late). She called us at 10.15 and said she was at the BBS shopping complex, and would meet us at the bus stop. We finished eating, gathered our things and walked very slowly to the bus stop. Then we waited for, oh, 15 mins, before calling her. She was still at BBS but said she was coming now. A while later she called again, saying she’d gone home to get some tablets, but was coming now. So we left the bus stop I’d say after 11. Which was cool, we had quite a nice time hanging out there. Watching the combis go past, playing with seed pods, putting on suncream J Once you let go of being on time being at all important, or of time being wasted when you’re waiting for things, it’s actually quite pleasant to just chill at times.

So, got off the combi, walked around trying to find the trade fair, which was somewhere in this park place. We walked in through an open gate and this really wench guy, confusingly in a full tuxedo, told us to go out and go round. So we walked for a good while (at least ten mins I’d say, with the complex on one side and what looked like endless bush and desert on the other), until we finally got there. Once we’d bought tickets and got in we realised that it wasn’t actually a trade fair, it was an agricultural show! So there were lots of tractors, planting machines, sacks of grain, and animals, but no jewellery/wall hangings, which is what we’d been expecting. At first I was a bit pissed off because June had said it was an agricultural fair, but Martha had phoned her friend at the ministry and assured us that it was actually the trade fair. And basically I was missing my Saturday morning lie-in. But Then managed to just embrace it.

So we wandered around, checked out some chickens, geese, rabbits and ducks in cages, looked at prize-winning seedheads of various plants. Looked at some bloody disgusting cows with rings through their noses, cute pigs, really cool goats (I wouldn’t let Kate buy one). Learnt about ‘Newcastle Disease’ in chickens. ;) Basically it was pretty hilarious. On the way out Lee asked the person at the gate and discovered that the trade fair proper will be on the 25^th. So hopefully we’ll go to that one as well! Lee is so nice to spend her Saturday taking us out so we don’t get lost, 9we definitely would have without her there) - she really is a sweetie.

Spent the afternoon doing an impressive yet gruelling four hours of studying, sitting outside with a lovely background noise of some political rally broadcast on loudspeakers going on all afternoon. Then to reward ourselves we decided to get pizza and beers. Wethu was going out to buy milk anyway so I went with her to get said deliciousnesses. Because the proper liquor stores were closed by this time she took me to what she called the ‘locals’, basically the grotty bars that open from 10am to 9pm, where alcohol is a lot cheaper than at the ‘posh’ places like Georges and Bull and Bush. The entire car park area was strewn with hundred of empty beer bottles and cans, with lots of people sitting outside drinking. It kind of looked like a festival or something. Went it, bought a couple of beers for just over a third of what they cost at Georges (around 60p a small bottle), then went to get pizza. Spent the evening munching and watching ‘Miss Congeniality’ (tried to then watch ‘Miss Congeniality 2’ but it was so awful we couldn’t stomach it). We may make this a weekly ritual, it was really fun J