Organized Chaos and Markets

daladala rides
When we got in the daladala, the guys let me sit up front so I could see everything; they were trying to get this little boy to sit between me and this old guy but the kid wouldn’t. It was pretty entertaining the ride, I would look around and realize that at least one person was staring at me. It was amazing how well the little buses handle with all that weight and the bumpy roads in Africa. One thing I really didn’t like that much was the fact that it seemed that people didn’t really want to sit next to me, which is weird for me because in the states I would love it if I had my own seat in a bus; but here I feel like a leper sometimes. Thes buses would never be found in the states, first off too many people go into them, they never denied a person a ride, even when the door would not shut, it is really funny the money collector would hit the side of the bus and the driver would start to take off and the guy would come jogging up the side and jump on, it was great.
And the bus stations the two words to describe it perfectly…organized chaos. It is amazing that they actually work with such efficiency. it cost me 200Tsh to go from Siha to Sanya Juu, and them 1400 Tsh to Moshi from Sanya Juu; that like less then 2 bucks for a two hour drive; since a majority of people do not have any transportation they are always full and run often.
A little boy crying because he was scared of the daladala cars in general actually, the teacher that I was with said that he was crying because he was afraid of cars probably because he was not to used to them.

The markets were so awesome. You can get anything there. Today I went to two markets on Moshi town, I think that both were everyday markets. I took some pictures, I stopped after a women was getting pissed that I was taking a picture of her booth, I was actually taking a picture of her peppers, but whatever. I got this really cool necklace at one. The guy wanted 3000 first, I said that that was too much and I would pay 1500 for it, and he said that it was too low. I didn’t really want to so I said thank you anyways. And gave it back to him, and started to look at other stuff, then he said 2000, so I got it. I is pretty cool, I think that I can find nicer necklaces, but Jordan might like it.

It is so different from the states. I mean that these markets are were people get everything, food, soap, veggies, blankets, shoes, spices. Most of the stores seem to be rundown, stuffed with stuff that fell of the truck type of stuff, the markets are full of fresh items, so cool. And there are a lot of things that you have to go to the market to get, that you cant get at the stores. And to get people attention to pay the fare, they start jingling coins a round, I didn’t get it any of the times because I was zoning out and looking at the land around.