I think my thumbnails are falling off

Hi

This has to be really quick because we just arrived in Addis and the atms are not available on sundays because they are inside the bank and we need to keep what little money we have free for coffee because its really good here.

Right so I seem to be falling apart. I have my left leg which is reserved forbumps and bruises and my right toe which is covered in scratches and the big toe has only just recovered fromcarrying a giant blister the same size as it - I got it while treking in park disalo in madagascar and then had to walkaround for a week in flip flops - all the malagash stare at your feet expectingto see nice shoes but on me I think they saw leprosy because they'dalways balkand cringe upon glancing. My third toe along on the right foot is also scabby but that is from my altercation with a swimming cockroach that triedto dockon my boob because I was wearing a floralbikini in the natural swimming pool in ranomafana. The little toe is also scabby but I cant remember where that came from?
But seriously I dont know if it is the dust and dirt andgrime that was sitting undermy nails but now my thumb nails are raise and looklacquered like shells and are sore and I am worried that they will fall off and never grow back
If you have the answer to this query please respond

Also if anyone can fill me in on the sex of britney spear'sbaby, if katie holmes has married or left crazy tomcruise and other such important matters it would bemuch appreciated.

So I went to the masai mara and it was amazing but a little like a theme park -we drove around in little white mini vans with the roof raised up like a picnic table on top of the vehicle so you can stand and take photos - occasionally you'd see other glimmering white vehicles and you kind of felt like they all should be running onlittle electric rails like in disney land. Our first vehiclelostthe transmission or something so we'd rattle whenever we went into first gear which m,eant sneaking up on the wild life unawares was quite difficult... But all that said it was amazing-AMAZING!!! We saw everything - like everything, lions devouring carcasses, ostriches running, hippos snorting at each other, leopards up in trees, lots of wilderbeest who looked like old chinese men with confucius beards, buffalo with about 10 birds perching on them, female hyenas with extended clitorises who looked like chicks with dicks, wart hogs hotfootingg it away fromlions inhotpursuit but would forget they were being chased half way through because they're so stupid and would see a bit of tasty grass and go over and munch it. Giraffes running - actually apart from the cats all animals atpace looked really funny, all the various antelope-gazelle, dik dik, hartebeest looked really skittish and would kick their legs outto the side mid run like charlie chaplin. The only animal we didn't see were cheetahs but we'renot gonna talk about that because itmakes meupset- but apparently they have them in Ethiopia.

But now I just want to say I really miss my nairobi hostel family - janet getting into fights with the kenyan girl over use of the two hobs, winston being refused service at a muslim watch counter because he was from bush (USA), and its funny to me on many different levels because I've been spending toomuch time with boys so I think that its funny that it is a person a country and a genitalia... The reason might I add that he needed a new watch is cos he got scammedinto trading hisperfectly decent watch fora crap one by a masai around a campfire- they're very savvy....

I wish we could go back to the localpolice station bar - interesting concept-get the drunks next door to the cells so transport isnt an issue-where crazy john danced to the same congolese vcd every night and did a kind of mc hammer, tai chi, thrusting and tongue flicking dance before getting kicked out by nine every night.

Hopefully tomorrow I can write culturalstuff but right now I'm tired.

PS in Nairobi there is a second hand clothes market which really brings homehowwasteful we are because all the clothes are donations from the west and virtually look brand new. Second hand underpants no matter how unfettered they look-I'dstill struggle with that. The confusing thing is why the donatedclothes are being sold at all surey donation means free - not they western boats thatbring them over get to levy huge charges and apparently ngos get a cut before it all trickles down to the actual vendors

- my favourite thing about kenya - they dress thelittle girls up in frilly shiny dresses as if they'regoingtoa party every day

- my other favourite thing is sunday morning service with all the joyful uplifting hymns,no wonderpeoplego to church here, there'snoneed for it to be such a sombre affair in the west