Bitting Ants

Student: Monique Danieau

Country: Tanzania

Day-4: After breakfast we went to the wild life management called Tawa where a man talked to us about how they manage the wild life areas, told us about their functions and the challenges. after that we went for lunch at the same place we’ve been on day 2 and it was really good.

After that spontaneously we decided to go on a walk in a sort of forest, and obviously we did not have our hiking boots and the good outfits. It was really hot and at first the walk was quite good except for the fact that we were having mud on our white trainers. at one point we got a bit lost in the forest and the guides kinda tried finding a route but that led to us always stopping and at one point I feel something biting me so I started screaming and soon after everyone was screaming one by one. We had in fact walked of a biting ant nest and they we crawling up our leg and body biting us, we were all screaming jumping and running everywhere trying to get them off us unfortunately it did not work. as we were still walking and jumping at the same time to get these ants off we came across a river but as it is not safe Jo and Charlotte did not agree for us to walk through the river.

We obviously desperate do get out of where we were found a solution with the guides which were for them to carry us on their back across the river and we then finally made if out of the forest and took all the ants off our bodies. after arriving at the lodge we decided to take a shower to clean the mud and all these bits of us. at first the shower worked we but it only lasted 10 seconds before the water got cut off from all the shower so I ended up washing myself with bottled water but as I was washing myself with bottled water the electricity came off so I then ended up washing myself with bottled water in the dark it was quite disastrous. after that we went to have dinner and soon as we started eating the electricity cut off again so we had to eat with the torches of our phone and at the same time there was lots of lightning

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