Sunday, September 1, 2013

South African mother has priorities

In Tanzania we had this field camp, close to the project area.
It was a beautifully equipped tented camp, whit a dining, kitchen, solar heated water, office and solar panels. And so batteries and transformer.
The solar system was installed by the same Ben who was killed few weeks ago in Nairobi (the-man-who-raped-chicken ) and whenever there was a problem (let's say every 10 days), he was happy to took the occasion to go in the Savannah.
Apparently I was the only one hating that place: dust, huge swarms of killer bees during dry season, snakes during wet season which brought rats. all the others found those thing extremely romantic. But I'm not a volunteer.
Anyway once Ben was bitten by a snake while moving one of the batteries and he immediately called his mother, a snake expert, in South Africa to know if that species was poisonous or not.
"Mother, I was bitten by a snake!"
"Not now darling, I'm busy".

And so he decided to shock himself with a car battery, because electricity degrades venom proteins.
He survived.
That time.




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