Jun6 Written by:Kayle
6/6/2008 11:03 AM
Mat took the American summer team out camping to the Matopos, which is a beautiful national park about 30 minutes from here. Two other faculty/staff members from the college joined them with their children. They cooked dinner over the fire, played games, sang some songs around the fire and then snuggled into their tents and sleeping bags for the evening.
Around 2am, Mat is woken by the echoing sounds of someone vomitting. Unfortunately, Michael (one of the Americans) ate at a local restaurant and got food poisoning. It's 2am and he's throwing up about every 30 minutes along with diarrhea as well! In fact, one of the lecturers took Michael back to town at 7am to get a shot to stop him from throwing up and to get him some liquids to help rehydrate him. As the group got up for the morning, they saw a dead rat a few meters away from them and tossed it over the rocks, not thinking much of it. Then as they were packing up their camping stuff, they went to fold up the tents and found a big puff adder snake all curled up under one of the tents!!! This snake had come there for warmth during the winter cold! SCARY! But I guess they said the snake was quite docile as it was simply trying to get warm and not trying to attack at all.
Puking and snakes--can't get much more exciting than that!
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