What you can buy from a bus window

Today I took a nine-ish hour bus ride to the capital for the first leg of my journey for my site visit. Here in Tanzania you can buy a lot of things from your bus window as you pull into each stop:

Live chickens (the bus driver asked the price for a hen, and apparently anything more than 7,000 shillings, or about $4, he considered too much.)

Cashews

Small decorative tables

Blocks of sugarcane

Roasted sweet corn fresh off the grill

Newspapers (in Swahili or English)

Shortbread biscuits or chocolate cookies

Beaded flip flops

Woven baskets

Massive bunches of bananas

To name a few items.

Dinner at an Italian restaurant, pizza and  time to decompress with two other trainees and the volunteers who have come to escort/ host us this week.

Tonight, a nice clean room in the place we're staying, with our own bathroom that is 1. Inside and 2. Has a toilet! Oh the luxuries. :)