To get to my school, I must take a dala dala (for those of you who do not remember, that is a "bus"), because it is in a village 7 kilometers outside of town. Each morning we meet a teacher and one student and head into school. An hour and a half later, I arrive at school. After school it is a 2 hour dala ride home.
The only way to describe the dala rides are to reference the 1st Hoffmeister family van...the green one to be exact and still holding the title of greatest vehicle ever.
Picture a bus the size of the van with 4 rows of seats and approximately 28 people inside, take out the captain's seats, airplane lighting, air-conditoning and television...and you've got yourself a dala dala. Oh and if we are describing today's trip, add in 4 huge baskets of fruits and greens, a bucket of dead fish, and lots of stares cast in my direction. Delightful. Good news Mom: the roads to the village are quite bumpy so we never reach a speed above 10 miles an hour.
So today I salute you Hoffmeister family. You drove a Dala Dala for years and didn't even know it. You saw 7 seats and thought that meant seven passengers. You provided countless hours of entertainment and nice napping and did it all for less than 700 Tanzanian shillings. Well done.
P.s. Can't get photos uploaded...will keep trying.
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