This morning I worked on homework, got my map of East Africa done! Made iced coffee’s again and this time added chocolate syrup in them! Then at 2pm we went to boona baana. Lately we’ve been having some trouble with figuring out what were allowed to do and what were not allowed to do here because of the responsibility that UFV has over us here. We are trying to plan a trip to Arusha, a safari and some people want to go to Kenya but it’s been hard figuring it out and arranging a way to do it so that the University will be okay with it. Even little things like riding the tuk tuk’s (pronounced took took) are off limits. It’s understandable because we are on an internship and they are responsible for us, but it makes it a lot harder to do things!
I took a picture of the tuk tuk’s the other day, so I’ll explain what they are. They are named after the sound that their small two cycle engines and originated in Japan. They are a super cheap, three wheeled, convenient and fast form transportation. They are sort of dangerous because they are so small and the sides of them are open, but they are able to usually bypass the heavy traffic by going up the side of the roads. They are everywhere and a lot of the locals take them.
There are also Dala Dala’s, another form of transportation here that we aren’t allowed to use! They are very cheap and they are called that because the Swahili pronounciation of the English word “dollar”. When they first were invented it cost five shillings (which is practically free, haha!) and these were the size of a silver dollar. A Dala-dala is more like a pickup truck or van and has benches inside around the edges and a roof on top. There is no tailgate on them, but instead steps are there so that people can board them easier. The idea is for people to sit on the benches but we usually see them so crowded there are people pushed up against the windows and standing in the middle.
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