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After last night's antics I had a bit of a sleep in, before getting up for breakfast. I was already sweating and the freshwater lake was right there, so I went for a quick dip before going to the truck to get some food. I had breakfast and some of the other people went off on a village walk, I had already done this two years ago, so I went and had a bit of a kip in a hammock, before deciding to go back to my tent and kip in there.
At about 3pm I went to the bar and sat around with some of the group, Ash came up to me and managed to convince me to get my hair dreadlocked. We went outside the gate and were swarmed, when Ash announced to all the hasslers, Who does dreads?! I actually just ended up with tiny plaits all over my head, that in itself was an intense experience as I was made to sit on a rock, while about eight guys surrounded me and started plaiting my hair. It only took about forty minutes to do my whole head and I only paid all of them about ten dollars. Ash actually got dreadlocks in his short hair, he ended up looking like Side Show Bob from The Simpsons.
At 6pm it was time for our pig on a spit, I love Africa, no restrictions on pork here and I thoroughly enjoyed this meal. Before the our pig dinner, we swapped the costumes that we had bought for each other in Mzuzu. Cal had bought mine, a long pink kaftan, with naked to the hip splits and a skirt with spider webs on it. I decided to roll with the pink number and put my new braids up into two buns, Ash did my make-up. I came out looking like a bit of a demented Chun Lei from Street Fighter.
We headed over to the bar and things were a bit slow at first, I took care of that though, by rigging up my iPhone to the stereo system and telling the bar staff to turn the music up. I then got back up into my place in the world and started dancing on the bar. It wasn't long before everyone was drinking and dancing, no quiet night for us. At one point all the boys were dancing on the bar with me, most of them wearing girls clothes. Callum looked especially funning in a yellow and black tutum Jonah was rocking a mini skirt and black negligee and Scotty had on bright red pants and a sequined crop top.
Ash had on a sparkly little black number and thanks to me and my make up kit, was wearing fluro green eye shadow, poor George ended up in a long pink dress and Ash put him in bright blue eye shadow. Ash joined me on the bar for most of the night and at one point actually fell off the bar, some people kind of caught him, which was really lucky or else it would have been an epic face plant. At one point I think we were marching up and down singing Hakuna Matata from the Lion King, with me doing the voice of Timone and Ash doing the voice of Pumba, it was pretty epic if I do say so myself.
I eventually got down off the bar and let some other people have a go. It wasn't long before the idea of skinny dipping in the lake was voiced and a group of us ran down onto the beach, stripped off and charged into the lake, which now had some pretty wild surf. Did feel a little sheepish coming out of the lake naked in the moonlight, and was then petrified that someone may have stolen my clothes (hell I would have done it!) I found my dress which was impossible to get on in the wind and then went back to the bar. I stayed up until nearly everyone had gone to bed. I fell asleep in my tent, still wet from the lake.
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