Im currently studying for an archaeology exam on friday and have an essay due on the 17th, and exam on the 18th, and a final on the 19th that is either worth 55% or 90%. Needless to say I have thought about jumping out of a plane, shooting myself in the head and taking up smoking, curling up in a ball screaming crying and drinking a bottle of whiskey straight. As some of you may or may not know i'm going to Tanzania for the summer and i'm leaving May 3rd and I can't bloody wait.
The fact that I have a ticket and am leaving very soon is causing a lot of distractions to say the least. Some of the useless bullshit I have to memorise includes looking at people going to random countries and it crossed my mind what on earth to the people at customs think.
For example, the Democratic Republic of Congo has some random specific type of monkeys that like to say "hello!" by having sex. Apparently there has not been much research done on these guys because of where they live. So naturally, it crossed my mind as to what a customs officer must think when a white guy or girl shows up with a research visa and says it wants to research these rather..... passionate? monkeys that not a lot of people know about.
Personally, I would just absolutely love to see the look of the customs officers face when some academic tells him that and see how he reacts. Does he go " we have more than one kind of monkey?" or would he react like me " why do you care about hypersexual monkeys? Are you interested in making some monkey porn, and want to find ones that are going to be the most comfortable in front of the camera?"or would he like most normal people just go what the hell let them through.
Anyways, 23 days till i'm off adventuring in search of the african sun. My visa is being issued as we speak, a visa..... A visa so I can work in the country and come and go as freely as I please....... not a visa to research hypersexual Congolese or Tanzanian monkeys.
Now back to seeing what other random ancient stuff that all looks and sounds the same I can fit into my head... sorry this wasnt much about travel but its about the world so its good enough right.
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