Friday, February 12, 2010

World Cup tickets

I got back from Moshi and our swine flu shots last sunday night. Moshi is an awesome town. It caters to tourists mainly so they have lots of killer food. I was there all day saturday and had two breakfasts, heaps of coffee, some killer indian at lunch, decent italian and wine for dinner and then went to a cool outdoor bar and sat around a bonfire for a bit. Unfortunately now I have no money, so until i get to a bank again, ill be living kinda meagerly.

Coming back from Moshi was a super long day. We had to catch an early coaster from Moshi to Arusha in order to get a bus that went all the way to Katesh. Unfortunatley we arrived a bit too late so could only get as ar as Babati, where we then got a daladala. Megan reallyy didnt want to take a dala, but this one seemed different: it had captains chair style seating and the roo poope up like a Westfalia, so we thought it wouldnt get too crowded. Of course, this being Tanzania, we couldn't hae been more wrong. The dala wasn't too crowded until about Dereda. it was also about here where it started to rain so the roo had to be closed so the people standing were now hovering around my face and pinning megan in a cornerr against a window with a little girl and an old man. I literally could only move my hands for most of the next two hours. And Dereda should only have been about an hour away but because o the rain we had to go slower. When we got to endasak some folks got out so it wasn't as crowded but then after driving for about 50meters, we brroke down. I don't know anything at all about cars, but to me it looked like a brroken axle. the sun was going down too, and theres nowhere to stay in Endasak, and endasak is a bit of a gnarly little place, so we were a bit woried and anxious to get another ride to Katesh. We tied to get this guy with a tuck to take us but as we were arguing to no avail with the owner a big rig drove by and offered to take us. The guy we were arguing with tied to dissuade them, but fortunately they took us. When we got to Katesh we wee greatl releived, ate 1 kilo and a half of pok between the two of us, had a couple beers to celebrate an ages long day of travel and then fell sound asleep.

That day, I also found out i got wold cup tickets, to the US Slovenia game and the US Algerria game. I'm super stoked, and as soon as I'm done typing here I'm going start shopping for airfare and lodging.

Thats all for now, cheers!