Now that is some scaffolding...
Zanzibar is a very nice place in which to hang out.
The streets feel very safe (there’s always a tout close by so really, if anything were to happen, I suppose you could just yell for a taxi or some cashews and somebody would come running!) and once the sun goes down, the air is comfortable enough, especially if there’s a nice breeze blowing in from the Indian Ocean.
Turned a corner down near the port and poof! Awesome cinema...
Stone Town is totally walkable and if you need to go anywhere beyond the immediate tourist areas the “dalla dallas” are cheap and relatively quick. We’ve been taking one out to the neighbourhood where the youth group is based and some bumps nothwithstanding, it’s a pleasant experience to chat with the other passengers, who are invariably shocked when they climb on and see a couple of white people sitting (or standing) there.
I finished my wee workshop on Word and Powerpoint this morning... it was fun, although kind of frustrating... try remembering what it was like when you didn't know what a cursor was... or when someone moving it around made you dizzy... Today, I just threw them into the deep end and showed them how to prepare slides, insert images and crop them... then it was on to custom animation... oh yeah, baby... dissolves, checkerboarding, faing swivels, the whole lot. They loved it. Then, I headed back into town and grabbed some lunch here at a place called "Livingstone's" where the best thing going is the free wireless... [oops, I take that back: the chocolate cake with ganache just arrived and it's wonderful...]
My computer class...Tomorrow will be a day to work on the essays that I have outstanding and then on Friday our guide will take us around Stone Town for three hours, starting with the seriously daunting looking market before finding us a driver to help us visit a spice farm for a tour... (you can expect little spice sampler kits as souvenirs...)
Saturday, it's way up the coast to a beach town for some more snorkeling and fresh fish... : ) then back to Stone Town for Monday before we fly to Arusha on Tuesday (forecast high: 23C!!!).
Fresh coconut juice... great for killing amoebas!
From there, we'll visit the International Tribunal for War Crimes in Rwanda and also go to the famous Ngoro Goro crater and do some hiking on Kilimanjaro...
Flight to India is 11 Dec.
One of the participants in the PAR seminar.
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