Today I was going to get on a bus for Arusha, since going to Arusha yesterday didn't work out. So I get on the Dar Express bus that will take 45 minutes instead of the hour and a half I spend on the buses that are more like large vans. I show up five minutes before two, ready to board the bus. I see a Dar Express bus down the road. I had been told by Mama Grace that all I needed to do was climb on and pay in the bus. The bus starts moving and that's when a man asks me, "Do you have a ticket," before I can answer I realise that this bus was coming from Arusha and was headed for Dar Esalam. I got on the bus going the wrogn direction!
They let me off the bus as soon as I relaize I'm headed the wrong way. It's pouring rain, but luckily there is a taxi right behind the bus. I think I might still have enough time to get to Arusha before the shop closes so I tell the cab driver to take me to the bus station. I get into the large van bus, but these buses don't leave until they are completely filled and after sitting there for twenty minutes I gave up.
So now the new plan is to get on a bus right after placement at juvy and get over to that camera shop and get my camera. Unfortunatly a local who is a friend of mine informed me that it was bad that I did not negotiate the price for getting the camera fixed before I gave it to them, because now they can demand any price. I'm really starting to get fed up with this place. But it will pass, Tanzania is a beatiful place and this is all great learning expirences for me, but I've also decided that after this I'm probably not going to come back, at least now for a few years.
Wish me luck! (I'll probably need it.)
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