First experience with a green Mambo

Friday the 12th of March: Today (morning), just teen-fifteen minutes ago, I was sitting working here at the veranda together with Camilla. Then one of the other girls, Julie, called and asked if I wanted to see a snake. We both ran outside and there was this very colourful snake, half of it where down in the ground (in a mousehole). We asked our kitchen-ladies if they could tell us if it was dangerous. It was a green mamba – the most poisonous snake that Africa have. All the ladies were screaming when they saw it and shouted on the local guys, also working here. One of them came with a big stick and he killed it – drama in the beginning of the day. I didn’t have time to get scared, but afterwards looking at a dead mambo and the film that I got of it all, I got a little scared anyway. They say that it doesn’t happen that often that a snake is this close to our house - very nice to have the locals around. Now it’s evening, the rain and thunder came again tonight. Danish thunder is nothing compared to this African-crazy weather.