Stone Town Zanzibar – Being Uncool

Stone Town Zanzibar – Being Uncool.
Dec 10
I basically worked on my website all day to get it ready to spring out.  And with technology, I had a lot of help from my friend Rob who is two continents away.  The modern world…  I am using my little hotel room as an office and I am sure that the guys running this guesthouse think that I am lame, and wonder what I am doing in my room all day long.  I am in there being uncool doing things that I need to do in the geek world…

I went out for a walk to find some fruit to eat and exchange some money.  It is hot here.  There is always sweat leaking out of me.  Perhaps I am not used to the temperature either.  There are also very few white people around.  I do not see many of them.  But the Tanzanian’s are super nice and friendly.  Today I had my first person ask me for money.  He said he was very hungry.  He was also wearing nicer clothes than me.

When I got back to the guesthouse, I had some forms to fill out to get back some Dutch taxes.  I was talking to the local man at reception when I noticed an advertisement for a bus that takes people directly to the top of the island for $7.  I asked him, “Is that the ‘white-person’ bus, full of white tourists?”  He laughed and said it was.  I said, “Eeeew…”  He laughed.  I asked him, “Is there a dola-dola that will take me to the top?”  He said there was.  I said that it is a much better way to travel, because then you meet local people and get culture.  He liked me and thought I was funny.