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6/30/15 - Last few days in Tanzania and traveling home

Well the last I wrote I had just had all of my fabulous adventures on Sunday in Zanzibar. Monday we went to tour a spice farm which was really interesting (even though it was raining) and I got some spices to bring home. Then we went on the ocean ferry (which is much bigger and faster than an ordinary ferry I've been told) and I was one of the few who didn't have to take Dramamine or get sick which I was pretty proud of. It felt a lot like a mix between a roller coaster and an intense trip on my uncle Aub's little speed boat, both of which I love, so I quite enjoyed it. 

We went to a nice hotel called the Tiffany Diamond in Dar es Salaam and Bria and I actually had to call the front desk to figure out how to turn the lights on (you had to insert your key in a slot by the door). The next three days were quite uneventful as I was quite sick and unable to leave the room. I would feel better and go down to eat and afterwords just be sick as a dog again even though I wasn't eating foods that were too crazy. Friday we left Dar es Salaam to head back to Arusha on a ten hour bus ride on a "luxury" bus, though the AC wasn't working and there was no toilet, so I don't know what made it luxury. Saturday we went to a village shopping center called Tengeru and picked up the dresses that we had ordered. They turned out ok, but will need a few more alterations before I'm satisfied completely and I kind of got ripped off for one of them because I paid the extra to have liners put in both of them so that they wouldn't be see through and only one of them has a liner so I have to buy a slip to go under it. We also went to the food market at Tangeru and it was very hectic but extremely cheap by our standards. 

Sunday we went to our host family's church, which of course was all in Swahili but it was still neat. We also got to see a baptism and near the end our host dad had us stand up and introduced us and had us say something to the congregation which he translated (it went along the lines of thank you so much for accepting us into your culture and church and we've really enjoyed our time here). After church we had lunch at our host family's house with about 12 other visitors who were Danish and then our host dad showed us all the different stages of his coffee beans and showed us how he roasts it and grinds it and boils it. Monday we had to go back to class, even though classes were supposed to be finished before the Zanzibar trip and our professors just decided they weren't quite done yet so instead of letting us spend our last day with our host families we had to sit in a classroom. That evening we hosted a celebration to thank our host families and TCDC and our service agencies. 

Then on Tuesday we got up and went to hang out at TCDC until it was time to go to the airport and the trip home so far has been much like the trip there - very long and very tiring lol. I will eventually make one last post with all of the pictures of things that other people are soon to be posting on Facebook, like the beaches in Zanzibar, me in my new dress, me with my host family, and the coffee roasting process. Stay tuned and thanks for sticking with me this whole time!!!