so i ate a python the other week.

i was sitting on my toilet talking to my mom on the phone (no need to judge folks) when i heard some voices out my window- got up and asked who it was and it was some other volunteer friends who live across the way. They were coming to fetch Tate Matti to help kill a snake...i got the invite too:) we went to Rachel and Calebs house (new peace corps volunteers) and there it was, a baby python...still two meters long!!!!!! Rachel had left my house that night with no light and there to greet here on her porch was this silly thing. Tate Matti and Caleb took turns beating it with a rake and a long stick until it stopped moving....not quite dead yet though. it kept comin back to life and even the next morning, after several rocks had been piled on it, it had escaped towards a nearby tree!! a few more beatings that morning and then they chopped off its head just to make sure it was really dead this time. so what do you do with a snake after killing it? give it to the hospital patients of course!!! a group of guys started skinning it, collecting the snake skin oil in jars for traditional medicine, and then they prepared it for a feast. (now the oil medicine isnt actually used at the hospital it's used with traditional doctors only) it was all quite an adventure, enjoy the pics:)