Once again, I have manifested a wonderful little house that is everything I had hoped for before I came to Africa. I had faith that I would find exactly what I wanted. My friend Nassa was awesome and had a few places for me to look at before I even got here. I didn’t even have to ask him a few days after I got into Bagamoyo he told me. I was stoked because I had no idea where to start.
The first place he took me too was a little shabby, yet in a pretty safe part of town. There were about 6 little houses, 2 adjoined together. I walked up and a girl came out of her house and just stared, she didn’t smile or greet me by saying, mambo vp, dada or Habari za mchana, (hello how are you or hello, how are you finding this afternoon?) She just stared. I thought, yah not sure about this vibe, at all. I smiled back and her lip curled into a tiresome, lazy smile, and then she went inside. Hmm I didn’t feel so welcome here. His friend, Rashidy came to meet us and took me to see the place that was for rent. We walked up to this nice, little white house, that looked like it had a good two days to be finished . I asked, “how do we get in to see it?” Rashidy said “I am going to call the owner.” These Africans, ‘oh come and see the house and let us know what you think…’ and they hadn’t even called the landlord or had a key. He said come and see my house and wait for the guy to come and let us in. He told me that his house was like the house I was going to see.
We sat down and waited, and waited. All of a sudden I heard this horrible, loud, hip-hop music blaring from one house, and loud African pop coming from another house. I looked at Nassa and said, “dude what is the age of the people that live here?” Please ask Rashidy if they play this loud music all day and night because there is no way in hell I will deal with this. Right then I new I wanted to leave. Not to mention we had been waiting an hour for the guy that he couldn’t get a hold of.
As we were walking back to the house I was staying I saw a friend of mine, a volunteer from CCS riding his bike, and he stopped and asked what we were doing and then told me he had just taken a look at this lovely little house because he was thinking about staying, but wasn’t sure. He gave us the directions, I looked at Nassa and he said “I know that girl so let me give her a call.” He made a few calls to his friend and then he said “let’s go meet with her in town and she will show us the house.” I thought ‘go in town, we just came from town and it takes 20 minutes to walk in the hot sun and we had already been walking around for 2 hours. And we are right at the house.’ I know, I know, walking is great, but not when you feel like your entire body is glistening with sweat. J I was anxious to find a house so I agreed.
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