Samstag, 18. August 2007
03.08
ihmsen, 11:35h
It’s incredible, but I’m already more than three weeks here in Vietnam. So most of the curiousness and astonishment is gone and I do have bit of routine. I even got more or less used to the myriads of mosquitos here, although I found a new target of hate, HORNETS.
I have a nest of them in front of my house and when I was cutting the grass I accidently approached too much and those bastards stung me.
Fortunately I am prepared with some, normally pretty useless, high-tech stuff and so the sting-extractor, we carried around for 8 weeks in the Philippines, without using it once, had his first use. And astoundingly it really worked, the pain was gone just 10 minutes later.
That also means sometimes it’s pretty boring here because our local “nightlife” ends after dinner and a few beers. But from time to time some visitors pop in and bring some new topics to talk about. I also learned to play poker (something Falk and Jakob might regret because I play quite well, meaning I win more often than I loose) Last game I won 80.000 Dong, which might sound impressive, but it’s actually just 4 Euro. Anyway 80.000 Dong are 10 beer :D
Surprisingly the beer here is pretty tasty, I might it even rank our favorite higher than our famed Alhambra in Almeria.
We do have a bit of stress in the moment,as we are expecting the arrival of some new gibbons, those will be the primates 146,147 and 148, because last time I made an error, I mistook the number of cages for the number of primates. So at all we have 145 primates in 42 cages.
So everyone is really busy to prepare the quarantine station, because 3 gibbons need a lot of space.
I have a nest of them in front of my house and when I was cutting the grass I accidently approached too much and those bastards stung me.
Fortunately I am prepared with some, normally pretty useless, high-tech stuff and so the sting-extractor, we carried around for 8 weeks in the Philippines, without using it once, had his first use. And astoundingly it really worked, the pain was gone just 10 minutes later.
That also means sometimes it’s pretty boring here because our local “nightlife” ends after dinner and a few beers. But from time to time some visitors pop in and bring some new topics to talk about. I also learned to play poker (something Falk and Jakob might regret because I play quite well, meaning I win more often than I loose) Last game I won 80.000 Dong, which might sound impressive, but it’s actually just 4 Euro. Anyway 80.000 Dong are 10 beer :D
Surprisingly the beer here is pretty tasty, I might it even rank our favorite higher than our famed Alhambra in Almeria.
We do have a bit of stress in the moment,as we are expecting the arrival of some new gibbons, those will be the primates 146,147 and 148, because last time I made an error, I mistook the number of cages for the number of primates. So at all we have 145 primates in 42 cages.
So everyone is really busy to prepare the quarantine station, because 3 gibbons need a lot of space.
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