Today I learned the word for SNAKE!!! Chiko was getting something out of the storeroom and suddenly she was yelling NJOKA! and running around screaming. Then everyone was running and screaming. And I am just sitting there looking around, wondering if I should possibly run.  Finally someone realizes I am not reacting properly and starts screaming SNAKE! Which gets everyone running and shrieking again.  So of course I just creep in and snap a picture. It was pretty skinny, about a foot and a half long. It's coiled on a head-high shelf which is a little disconcerting because I always figured that if I am off the ground I am safe from snakes.  Apparently this is untrue. 

So we ran outside and called a gardener man who came and beat it to death with a stick.  He then proceeded to tell us that it was a black mamba baby and that means that there is a giant black mamba also in the stockroom who is now probably very mad.  He seemed serious, but I don't think that makes total sense to me.  Anyway, we are calling in a snake expert, whatever that may mean, to fumigate or something? I'll keep you posted on SnakeWatch2017.

In the meantime, our office manager went around stuffing all the cracks around the doors with paper.  No one appreciated my suggestion that, if there are more of them, all we are doing is sealing them in.