Monday, 5 July 2010

Update

1. I'm writting this from my hostel bed. All I see around me is a mosquito net, a white pillow case with yellow stains, and a big bottle of water.

2. I haven't slept more than 3 hours at a time since Friday night. Also, I have not changed my pants sine then.

3. Beer costs 1.70 Cdn. That's why I see a water bottle around me (refer to point 1).

4. Coffee here is absolute crap.

5. Our accommodation are similar to that of Ted's chicken shack.

6. Kwacha: Zambian currency. 1USD=5000K. First one to tell me how much Kwacha a beer is gets 50K. First one to tell me how much 50K is worth gets a van Mofinator.

7. I Shot the moon 3 times in one game of hearts.

8. Zambians are very friendly. I think "momboso" is the term they use for white men- more investigation needed.

9. The Dutch play tomorrow. I'm kinda Dutch.

10. My first poop was solid. Travellers diarrhoea is a a myth .
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, you liked Ted's Chicken shack 17 years ago....
Hopefully it gets better. Keep the mosquito net on!
Not going to ask about the yellow stains...
Please change your pants!
Love, Mom

Anonymous said...

1-9 sound about right. 10 seems way too good to be true.

Nice update!!

am

Darren said...

Sorry couldn't help myself, I like math.

1USD = 1.05049 (xe.com, 9:20am MST, July.6th)
1USD ~ 5000k (your ref)

Thus a beer would cost 8091K or approax. ~ 8000K

As for the 50K, that's basically 1 penny Canadian, you go ahead and keep that ;)