Friday 16th August- HIV prep work

Today was a boring day, as the HIV talk will now be tomorrow, instead of today. As a result me Dec went on a couple of walks so that we didn’t start getting cabin fever from being stuck in the lodge for so long. After lunch we had some HIV talk preparation, my group (Dec, Kate, Alice and Sam) were doing ‘How to contract HIV’ so we made about 50 leaflets and a couple of posters.

Once our prep work was all done we played cards until dinner which was Chapattis , beans and rice. After everyone had finished dinner, TLT introduced a game called ‘Assassins’, we all had to put our hands into 3 bowls and take out a slip of paper from each, which would be a name, a location, and an object. The objective being that we had to give that object to the person we had picked in the stated location, this game would continue until everyone had been ‘assassinated’ and so could last until the end of the trip. When everyone had finished picking their ‘assassinations’ we all sat down and put ‘Django Unchained’ on the projector to watch. By the end of the film only 3 of us were still up. We went outside to sit and watch the incredible lightning storm that was going on when Sarah started getting upset about losing her phone charger as she needed to ring her sister to find out about her A level results. She asked Tom about his charger but it wasn’t the right one, I said I had an old charger and that I would go and get it for her. I headed off through the rain to the boy’s dorm where I searched around in the dark for my old charger to give her. I found it and headed back to where Sarah and Tom were standing on the decking in the rain watching the storm. I should have known then that something was up, but I went over and handed over my charger. Sarah looked at it, said it was the wrong one and handed it straight back to me. As soon as I had taken it back from her, she said ‘sorry Adam, you’ve been assassinated.’ Turns out her task was to hand me a phone charger on the decking. Slightly pissed off that I was the first person to be assassinated, I handed her my task which she would now have to do and then I headed off to bed.