17.05.08

this is a picture from the mainland in st. louis to the hydrobase at sunset. i liked the tires.

i forgot to tell a toubab story in the last blog...so the other day i was going to go upstairs in my block to collect sara for breakfast and when i left my room i noticed some new little kittens running around that this cat madeleine and i named "smutty" had. (for a while she wanted to give birth in my armoire and my roommate had to chase her out at least 10 times) so i decided to surprise sara with a kitten and picked one up. the whole time there was a gardener there watching the little episode pan out (when i say kittens, these aren't cute little fluffy things...they're dirty and look as though they've been knocked around a bit but not rabid or anything, that is for sure) and needless to say was probably pretty grossed out. but in anycase i picked up the smallest one and went up the stairs and sara and i played with it for a little bit and let it down to walk around when i noticed it dangerously close to a hole in the wall where all the piping is and as i went over to get the kitten of course it disappears and all i hear is "meeeeeeeeew *thunk*" as it falls all the way in the wall to the first floor of the building. so, slightly panicked and thinking "oh shit i just killed a kitten" i went running back down the stairs to try to pry the little door off the pipe area on the first floor to let the kitten out all the while the gardener is craning his head around a bush watching me poke at the wall. so then i went back upstairs to tell sara what happened and as i get up there i hear some crashing noises downstairs and realize the gardener has broken the wooden door on the pipe area open to let the kitten out. i can't even imagine what he thinks:"stupid toubabs carrying dirty little kittens around and then dropping them down walls..." the happy ending is that the kitten made it out and is still alive and i saw it today playing with weeds. no more muus surprises for sara i guess.