My host mother walked me to the dalla dalla (public taxi) this morning and I seated myself just behind the driver (travellers guide recommendations when travelling on public transport). Wasn't a good move as meant that for the entire two hour journey I was situated by the window resulting in two hours of baking in the direct sunlight without sun screen. There was no option to apply sun screen as an after thought as my bag was wedged underneath me and the bus was so rammed that there was no way to get to it. The bus seated about 12 people but on average there was approx 30 in the dalla at any one time! As a last resort I had to sport my rain jacket as a means to protect my delicate (anti malarial medicated) skin from the blazing sun! I made it to Bukoba however and my boss, who was supposed to be meeting me was nowhere to be seen when I arrived. After battling Piki drivers (motorbike taxis) who were all trying to help me with my bags (grabbing them from me) I managed to fight my way to a round a bout which i could use as a point of reference, I called the taxi who arrived within 20 mins to take me to my accommodation.
The next epic fail was when I ordered a soda and due to miss communication between me and the waiter my soda ended up smashed on the floor! Whoops. Didn't have to pay for it though or clean up so happy days.
The rest of today has been spent doing more training and prep ready for the volunteers arrival on Saturday.
Right now we've just finished our meal - which took two and a half hours to arrive - and are headed back to our accommodation.
Tomorrow me and Eve will be making arrangements ready for the volunteers arrival and Frank and Aive are headed on a looooooong bus journey to collect the volunteers from the airport. I'm really excited to meet them after having been looking at their paper profiles and photos for the past week.
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