a simple day

Once again we flopped getting to work on time L (we’re just really bad at getting up ok?). We were expecting to go to a Trade Fair selling traditional handicrafts with Lee today. However once we got there she said that she needed to sort some stuff out first, so we just pootled about in the office doing a few things. Then, when she was ready, she said that actually it was now quite late to go, because there may be a queue to get in and then we wouldn’t have much time in the fair. The others were knocking off early so we left too.

We walked to BBS (a shopping complex near where we’re staying), had lunch at Nando’s (mmmmmm), then bought antihistamine cream and some books and pens (we’ve been studying close to two hours a day on average, and we wanted separate books to write in for our dissertation work/other work). On the way back Kate got like a million evil little thorny buggers stuck in her flip flops which went all the way through the foam. So we stopped, picked them all out, and started walking again. Two minutes later we realised that what we’d actually done is picked them out, thrown them onto the floor immediately in front of where we’d been standing, waiting sneakily for Kate to walk over them again and get stuck in her shoe again. Geniuses, huh? So, after picking them out again, we finally made our way back.

After studying for a while and eating supper, we went out with Wethu to a restaurant (it was an expensive one so we didn’t want to pay for a whole meal there – the premium price places in Botswana are almost the same price as the UK). Had a very nice time with Wethu and a couple of her friends, although there were meant to be other people sitting with us (Wethu’s cousin, her husband, his sister and her husband). However when they came, the sister-in-law decided for some reason that she didn’t want to sit with us, and without even saying hello, went to another table, about three metres away from us, forcing Wethu’s cousin to go over there! I’ve never experienced such rudeness. Anyway, we had a nice time despite that. Wethu and her friends went out afterwards but we just took a taxi home, as we’d arranged that Lee was going to come to the house between 10 and 10.30am to pick us up and take us to the Trade Fair the next day.