Monkeys!

So forgot to mention last week a few things:

First, on the way to work, we ran into 5 monkeys running across the road from the neighbor's house to the field across the way and then today (28/6) I heard a really strange noise when I got out of my gate. It was a cross between a crow and a frog and then I saw a blue butt and long tail jump down from a tree! It was a huge monkey, not like the small brown ones I saw last week, about the size of a toddler. Don't know what it was, but it was loud and running around the neighborhood. Saw two white guys walking down my road as I was going up, so I said good morning and warned them about the monkey. They seemed a little flabbergasted.

Secondly, my British roommate and I went to watch the England and USA matches which played at the same time, so she stayed at one place and held down the fort for me while I ran back and forth between two places to watch each game! I was running with my beer in hand around the building from the cafe to the cinema. Had to pass 3 shops and the small market and got many strange looks, but it was worth it! America beat Algeria, only to lose to Ghana in the next match. I feel like its a consolation prize though. We watched the US Ghana game in the Cinema with a bunch of Rwandese and one of Imogen's friends from the hospital called to laugh at me after the first Ghanaian goal. The guy sitting in the row in front of me kept turning around to heckle me and I finally just waved my hand at him and yelled "I can't hear you!". The Rwandese are so excited for an African team to be in the finals, that it makes it fun for me to watch the games, so even though we lost, I'm glad that it was to an African team and it'll be fun to watch them play again.