07-12-2018

07-12-2018 17days at Buffelsdrift
Christmas?

We started with lions today. From the elephants, we collected some dung and I had the honor to rub it on a hard plastic ball. Lions actually enjoy the smell of elephant dung, so we gave them a little shit present.

I threw the ball over the fence and, to my surprise, they actually went for it. All three of them enjoyed licking and rubbing against the ball. Nature is weird.

Then we cleaned the elephant enclosure, which was a complete mess today and took us forever to clean.

After that, we headed towards the school. A bunch of guests brought presents for the kids, and we were going to deliver them. So we got some fancy hats and a car filled with presents.

The kids all sat down while we went around and gave each of them a little gift, filled with toys, snacks, and some more useful stuff like a toothbrush.

The kids were a bit unsure since they aren't used to getting presents, but they all enjoyed it.

Then they brought their presents inside and started playing on the little playground. I started by annoying one kid on the bridge, trying to grab her shoes. Then a second one, and from there, it escalated.

I stole shoes and threw them back to the kids on the bridge, then I started to chase one that was holding a shoe and everyone started showing me their shoes and running away. I tickled and lifted them off the ground, which the other kids now also wanted to do. So I ran away...

I am used to about 8 kids versus me from the cevi, but here... I was hopelessly outnumbered. Soon I was thrown to the ground and attacked from all sides. Without any sign of victory, I called for Lea, but she just took pictures.

So after a while when I managed to calm down the kids a bit, I pointed over to Lea and yelled, 'Her!!!' The kids hesitated, so I went first, and with the kids, we brought her to the ground.

Now I was taking pictures.

We played with them some more and then said goodbye. Back at our tent for lunch, the giant tortoise was still there, and it started to rain.

So Mariné picked us up, we fed the elephants, and started cutting meat.

Lea was tasked with cleaning the meat freezer that had lost a lot of freeze and blood because of the power going out.

Me and Mariné cut piece after piece, towards the later afternoon we finally finished and checked on Lea. Since all the meat inside was constantly dripping blood, the freezer was never getting clean anyway.

Also, Lea seemed to be more covered in blood than the freezer itself.

So we helped to finish everything just before a big rainstorm hit. With lightning and thunder and wind and everything. So we drove back, all in the front row, and me and Lea jumped out of the car when we reached the tents.

It was a wild shower, the water wasn't too cold, but the wind kept pushing it away and the rain inside the shower.

We had to quickly warm up our food before they turned off the power for about 2 hours.

Me and Lea talked for a while and then went to bed. It had stopped raining, but it was still cold.