Day 5 (Thursday), ɛndɛ so biom….

Today too…

Francis and I decided not to go for the excursion to the Black Sea, because the idea of spending 10hrs traveling to go and see a sea for 1 hour or more wasn’t very appealing to us. Instead, we decided to do something more exciting..guess what? SHOPPING. (See the way I’m screaming it…it is not like I bought plenty things too. Just a few clothes (wink wink)).

Oh! Today too, I was late for breakfast. I woke up at 9.45AM, breakfast ended at 10.00AM. I managed to do some one or two things and found myself in the elevator at 10.05AM (We are on the 11th floor). Usually, Francis is the one who presses the buttons in the elevator and down we go, to the reception. This time, he wasn’t with me and me too, I forgot to press the button so that it will go down. I was busy preening and primping before the mirror, whiles the lift was still on the 11th floor! Breakfast too was going…oh charlie. After 5 min of preening and primping, I started to wonder ‘Why hasn’t the elevator reached the reception. Am I stuck? What am I going to do?’. When I turned to look at the buttons, I realized I was still on the 11th floor and hadn’t pressed the reception button. I could have knocked myself! Just as the lift was about to reach the reception floor, I decided the powder on my face was too much, and so I had to go back to my room to clean it up. I went up again, then came down. By the time I got to the restaurant, the food of course was GONE. The way I was hungry! I finally managed to procure some tiny cup of coffee. These white people…they don’t know the cups we drink from at home…ah!

We went shopping in the afternoon, like I mentioned earlier, right after lunch. I can assure you that I really heaped my plates. Yes plates. Over here they give you those tiny side plates as plates for meals. When Francis saw the manner of things I put on my plates, he said ‘I can see you are really hungry’. I didn’t take it easy on the food koraa.

We came back around 7.00PM. Plovdiv looks like Accra, with potholes on many streets, and grass growing at odd places. But it has taller buildings everywhere, and generally, things are more organized. People don’t drive anyhow and you don’t find dogs who are not afraid of cars, walking aimlessly on the streets. And in this season, the sun sets after 8.00PM. That is a bit unsettling. As at 6.30, whiles we were waiting for the bus, the sun was still shining, hot and furious. Here, the sun really burns. You can actually feel the rays piercing. But the funny things is, you don’t sweat too.

We had dinner late this evening. The contestants say they had fun at the Black Sea and spent about 3 hours there. After dinner, the leaders had their ‘ouzo’ party. A lot of drinking goes on there. But I didn’t get to witness it because I wasn’t interested, and was very tired. I came straight up to bed, this time, remembering to press the button for the 11th floor on the lift.

You guys think I’m chilling eeh…lol. Ahia for chilling. When I was busy waking up everyday at 4.30AM to go to work and arriving at 7.00PM, learning Discrete Math, abi you guys were relaxing. Now, it is my turn. :)

       After shopping, waiting for a bus