Today we arrived at TCDC at 10 to prepare for our 1:00 flight only to find out it had been cancelled due to bad weather and our next flight was not until 9:30pm. Initially, everyone was a little upset because some students got to leave earlier that day and were chillin' at the beach in Zanzibar already and we were going to miss out on one of our two days in paradise. After a bout of jealousy, we got over it and decided to make the best of our situation. Our professor, Dr. Davidson, and a small group of us decided to take a taxi to Tengeru market. When we go there it was chaos! There were people going every which way and cars trying to weave between the mess. I swear I almost got hit twice! Anyway, we managed and I found my way to the lady's shop that did Amber's weave. I asked if she'd do a fun quick braid on my hair so she did and it was pretty cute, I wont lie. I can pull off braids :P
I look like a 90's female rapper
Anyway, we spent a few hours there before coming back to TCDC for lunch then crowding into Professor Davidson's apartment so some could nap and the rest of us could lounge about and sort of watch BBC news. We did this for quite a while and most of the time it was silent in the room, with short bursts of laughter and odd conversation. However, at one point an author was reading a quote from one of her books that said, "I wanted to shove my fist between my thighs, somewhere between diarrhea and sex, a grief almost genital" and we all perked up with faces of confusion. We looked amongst each other asking what the hell we'd just heard then, of course, burst into laughter at the ridiculousness of grief being genital. Hannah also came up with a golden quote, "That describes my relationship to Tanzania: somewhere between diarrhea and sex" and we all died laughing. Everyone has been taking turns getting sick so we got a real kick out of that.
Finally, we took the bus to the airport and unloaded our luggage. We made it through security and to the check-in gate, but were stalled when the power went out (it does that a lot here) causing the system to go down and preventing them from checking us in. It took a long time for the system to come back up and people were getting impatient, but a few of us just popped a squat and waited it out. Once we were checked in, the waiting process was relatively short and the flight was even shorter.
All of a sudden, we were in Zanzibar! We took the bus to the hotel, the Abuso Inn, and settled in for a short night's rest before our day of fun in the sun.
Our room at the Abuso Inn
Hakuna Matata
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You both look so cute!!
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