In Angola, in addition to being robbed when going out, and the camp will be stolen by black people, there are many uncontrollable risks, such as various diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, cholera, etc., of course, in addition to these, there is also a risk in Angola, that is, snakes sneaking into the camp.
Figure 1: This may be a poisonous snake
Snakes, always quietly coming to the camp, had already arrived in the yard, under the car, and in the house by the time we found it. It scares people half to death every time. I have always felt that the arrival of the snake is mainly because of the large number of rats in the camp, and the snake may have caught the rats to eat, right?
Sometimes we can see snakes curled up on the road in the evening, when it's not too dark, and we avoid this situation from a distance. Colleagues generally do not hurt snakes, maybe everyone heard the old people talk about not being able to hurt snakes at home when they were young, right?
Of course, sometimes it is too dark to see clearly and there are cases of stepping on snakes, which often frighten both sides, and people also run snakes.
Figure 2: This may be a poisonous snake
In the dry season in Angola due to the low temperature, sometimes in the morning can be found in the camp to stay motionless, like figure 1 and figure 2 this is not common, I think this triangular head may be a poisonous snake, after the discovery directly picked up the shovel to make a second section (see figure 1), and later a colleague said: the snake can survive for several hours if it breaks its head and has attack power. Okay, throw it out, right? After throwing it out, I slapped a few heads again, is it safe this time? What the? Afraid of running back to take revenge on the head of that section? Isn't it safe to say that? When I went out with the shovel again to shoot it, I found that the half of the head was missing...
After half a month of fear, fortunately did not come to retaliate... I was really afraid that it would drag half of its body and come to me with a group of snakes, and I didn't understand the language with them, even if I apologized, it seemed that learning a foreign language was very important.
Figure 3: A snake found in the yard in the morning
Snakes like Figure 3 are heard to be non-venomous, for a while almost every day can see a few, like this snake we are generally respectful with a shovel to send out, and while sending good words to persuade them not to come later, we are not easy to go out, you see scare us enough.
Figure 4: The snake that appears in the courtyard
Good words of persuasion really did not work, during that time every day can see them, there are timid colleagues do not dare to go out at night, all the gaps in the dormitory with glue plugged, every morning always wait until the sun is high before daring to open the door. (Note: When the temperature rises after the sun rises, the snake can also move)
Figure 5: Angolan children selling snakes
Snakes are very common in Angola, and it is common to see snakes selling on the side of the road, like the snake in Figure 4, children ask for 10,000 kwanzas to 30,000 kwanzas. Sometimes the price may be 5000 kwanza to get it.
Looking at such a long snake, I don't know how the children caught it, it is estimated that it will take a lot of effort, right? Such a long snake must have a lot of strength.
Figure 6: Caught during mine clearance on the construction site
Due to the peculiarities of our work, many construction sites are in the wilderness, and forklifts can often make snakes like those in Figure 6 when clearing the meter. Sometimes blacks took it home, and more often some workers took it back to the company.
Figure 7: Peeling
After taking it back to the company, they directly peeled the skin, and the skin was carefully put away, saying that it was taken home for erhu. And it is said that the domestic erhu is not made of snakeskin but plastic, and the sound quality is not good. Yo?? And this is exquisite... I just don't know if I will be checked when I leave Angola Customs and enter domestic customs?
They always boiled soup with a chicken and snake meat, saying that it was called dragon and phoenix soup. I never eat this stuff, who knows if there are parasites on this stuff? Compared to snake meat, I still prefer to eat pork knuckles.
Figure 8: Peeled
If you think about it, I really haven't heard of anyone who lost their life in Angola, only that people have word of mouth how much money the people in that company have been robbed by blacks. It seems that snakes are still relatively kind.
Let's go out every day with hope and go home with happiness. May there be no ups and downs in our lives, and all the way is smooth. Come on, bro. Fox Fairy 2022.6.20