Saturday 10th August

Today began with a slightly more relaxing start: a wakeup call of 8am. After eating our breakfast, toast with marmalade, bananas and oranges. It was time for our next delightful road trip on some of the straightest and flattest roads on this Earth. On a few areas some girls did suffer from mild head injuries. We then arrived at the market. We witnessed goats/sheep (we’re unsure what they actually are) running wild and leaving faeces everywhere. We then began to shop. The majority of us bought scarves and a few bought traditional dresses. Rosemarie and our guide bartered for us very successfully. For those of us who tried on dresses on top of our clothes, the street became a changing room, leading to large crowds. We then toured round after Catherine, who had no clue where she was going- through the food and spices section of the market which made our noses a tingling and our tummies a rumbling.

Our next stop was a souvenir shop where many of us bought gifts.It took awhile for the purchases to be made due to a slow queue. Meanwhile, Chloe, Sophie and Alyx were stood outside next to the creepiest male and female, eyelash wearing mannequins in the whole world. This often made them jump believing that there was a person stood behind them.

We then proceeded to the Four Sisters restaurant for lunch. Once again the majority of us embraced the national cuisine (salad, pasta and chips). At the Four Sisters, they roasted coffee beans and wafted it near our faces. It smells beautiful, whether you like coffee or not. Before eating our meal we washed our hands. This meant a lady came round with a bowl and a jug of hot water and poured it over our hands. Everyone had tomato soup which shared a similar taste to Heinz.

We then made our way back to the hotel. Owing to the large number of bites on my arms Rosemarie and Catherine decided to try the bite sucker on my arm. They had been joking about performing surgery on my arms all day so I was slightly dubious as to the level of pain I should be expecting. In her excitement, Catherine practically ran all the way to Rosemarie’s room to find said sucker. When discovered she threw the instructions on the floor and told me take a pew before grabbing my arm and placing this tool of torture on my largest bite. Nothing happened. Disappointment initially followed before Catherine decided to read the instructions of how to use said device. Funnily enough she had been using it wrong. Using it supposedly correctly it was discovered that the pain threshold imagined was completely incorrect and I found myself in complete agony...Joke. I felt absolutely nothing. We then went downstairs to where Hannah and Rosemarie were sat and Catherine proceeded to use the bite sucker on their bites. Hannah also decided to read the instructions and found out that Catherine had still been using it wrong. The bite sucker should have been held on your arm for a minute instead of three seconds meaning my bites had to be sucked all over again!

Hope you’re not missing us too much,

Laterz

Loz and Clo xoxo

By the way the rainy season is now finishing so there is a little chance of sun (typical English weather plus potential sunburn)