just before I go to bed, I will tell the story. Ok, so it's not really
that interesting, but there's this guy staying here, he left this
morning to go find out about a job or something, but he's coming back on
Friday. I met him the other night when I met Christine and most of the
others. He was wearing short shorts, matching vest top and a bandana
thing over his head, and he sounds like the 'annoying' guy from The Boat
That Rocked (if you don't know who I'm talking about you should watch
the film, excellent film) with the same annoying nasal voice. Anyway,
the first time I was talking about having studied Egyptian Arch he was
asking if I'd heard about some experiment or something where they
covered a sarcophagus in some kind of animal skin, and then put sound
waves or something through the sarcophagus, and at a certain frequency
hieroglyphs appeared in the sand ("oh yeah, they scattered sand or dust
or something over the top") so "there's obviously some deeper meaning to
these things that we just don't understand yet". Oh here we go "no I
hadn't heard this, where did you read about it? Who did the
experiments?" "Oh I dunno, some place, not sure really" then he wandered
off as there were many conversations going on around the place. Then
this morning I for some reason engaged him in conversation (I was trying
to place his accent) and then we had a huge discussion about how there
is no evidence to show that the pyramids were built. At one point I
asked him if he'd read Von Daniken, and yes, he had. Hee hee. I
snickered a little. He seemed to think that at uni we are told how to
think like little schoolkids and can't make our minds up for ourselves,
so I had to explain that we learn the evidence, and the theories and
stuff, and work out for ourselves that stuff like that is a load of
bollocks, but without being rude of course, just generally a little
patronising maybe. Anyway, a real life believer in all that crap. Made
me want to do my original dissertation idea again, so maybe I'll get his
contact details in case I ever want to get in touch about it. I think he
lives in the UK generally. Funny.
Also there are small ants living in my laptop. I presume. I keep finding
them crawling around on it anyway.
Also just had a great evening. Michelle & I went to get a rolex from the
market, and then we bought bananas and came back to the hostel. Then I
lent her my book and she was immediately engrossed, so I ended up
hanging out with Sean and James outside, who were both waiting for texts
from laydees. James got his, some Ugandan woman who thinks he's older
than his (bless) 19 years, and who has a child. Sounds like he's already
spent the night at hers. And I don't know whose Sean's was, I never got
around to asking. I think I promised to play pool one night though, as
long as I've had a couple of drinks. Oh dear, i've not played for so
long. I do miss the old Hole in the Wall days though. :)
Also it's really windy tonight. Not very interesting but I felt like
another also.
Right, night folks.
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