animals

tuesday night was our last night out.. back in mwaluganje we wrote all the girl's and boy's names on slips of paper and drew them out of a hat to pair ourselves up. each pair then decided on an animal to dress up as and be tied together from 8-12pm.. i was paired with sebastian and, surprise surprise, i chose tiger.

once again there was a big lack of materials to use as costumes so i ended up just buying a can of fluro orange and black spray paint.. and spray-painting every scrap of bare skin on my body, feet included. unfortunately we'd run out of black face-paint crayons so i had to improvise and use a half-empty liquid eyeliner to paint my face. sebastian hadn't really managed to find anything so i decided to make him my tiger hunter - we chopped up a shirt of his to make a vest, i lent him my bone 'tooth' necklace and david tossed his hat into the pile. what resulted was, i think, i pretty successful costume pair!!

once again it was pretty funny watching everyone get ready and being creative with costumes - sam and gerry, the leopards, cut out a spot stencil that they spray painted onto each other.. jasmine the lion teased and spray-painted her hair into a big, orange mane.. mary and matt, the zebras, had commissioned zebra-print shorts from the local tailor..

the night was a big success with the camp kenya staff once again thinking we were mental.. trying to run around and dance whilst being tied to someone was a bit of a challenge and only one of the pairs stayed connected until midnight. i've gotta say though that scrubbing off paint meant for metal in the morning was really quite painstaking and unpleasant!!! and my toenails are still fluro orange..