After about 4 hours of sleep we were up at chai (breakfast) and ready to start the day. After a little of the bread and tea, we piled into zanzibars idea of a bus called a Dalla dalla, which was more like the bed of a truk with a ceiling. The drive to stonetown tool about an hour and a half in a regular car but would take an extra hour in the dalla dalla just because we'd make stops to pick people up. We had 15 people with us and we ended picking up at least 5 or 6 more people sp 20 or so people piled into a bus the size of a truck bed. Some of our people got really motion sick from our group but it was better after we got off.
We walked around for a bit and I purhased some sunglasses for aliviana and we had a dish called chipsimayai that was basically eggs and french fries. We were all huddled in this big group of 15 people walking through the tiny streets and stopping every five seconds and it didn't take long for the frustration to set in. Not only was it annoying because were all white people and when they see a hoard of mzungus they Jack up their prices, but also it takes forever to do anything.
We finally managed to get to a white person restaurant to ge some much needed recognizeable food. The place was a little Italian place that had really great pizza and gelato. Liv and I shared a pizza topped with veggies and I got a mandarin And vanilla gelato thatwas fabulous.
We all finally separated and me and aliviana went through a bunch of shops and piled up some stuff an perused. Everything wA pretty much the same wherever you went. Sculptures, paintings, and decorations. We bought a couple things but really just spent some time talking tithe locals. Pretty soon it was time to meet back up and we met at this really pretty park that had a perfect view of the sunset. They do a street fair with food there so we tried some of zanzibars most famous foods. The sugarcane juice was made by hand by cranking this machine with sugarcane and adding lime. It was amazing and thirst quenching. We were told by jess to try the Zanzibar pizza and it was amazing. It was made with a litle dough, some veggies, and your choice of chicken or beef and a little mayo with a cracked egg and it was grilled on this pan untilit was cut in tiny little pieces. It tasted like a really good eggroll. They also had dessert ones so we had one with nutella and bananas and chocolate that was the best. I'm still craving that one 3 days later.
We all met up with mr. Mohammed and went to a concert that was celebrating the anniversary of a local radio station. It was supposed to be a battle of the bands type thing with djs an Tanzanias biggest performers. It was pretty boring and unfulfilling so liv, me, David, marnee and Marco made a beeline for the bar and found that it was a Full Bar with mixed drinks! The excitement never left my face as I ordered bacardi and cokes with no ice all night. We all talked to the locals about why we were here and got some people interested in getting tested. We left around 11:45 and didn't get home until 1 am and immediately passed out.
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