Last night I was supposed to meet my volleyball friend for a game. She was actually keeping score so I was really going to watch. It was supposed to be a big game, this week there's this big all-Africa tournament with teams from all over.
The game started at 5 so I showed up a little after 5. When I arrived there were riot police all over so my first thought was 'good, this time we have pre-emptive riot police protection'. Then I noticed several ambulences and thought '...or maybe they decided to fight before the game and get it over with'. The riot police weren't letting anyone in but, for some reason, waved me to go in. Maybe b/c I was the only white girl in the middle of all these men outside the gate and I was 'unattended'. I decided that instead of going in I would call my friend who was already inside the compound. She said that the ceiling had collapsed at 4:30 but that she was fine. I just turned around and went home, there wasn't a whole lot I could do to help.
PTL that it happened before the game and the gym wasn't full of people. The weird thing is that it doesn't even seem all that strange to me. Around here buildings aren't exactly built according to any type of safety standard and sometimes they fall down. But what can you do, not go into buildings?
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