The Last Day in Africa

So leaving has been an adventure in itself.

We get to the Zanzibar airport super early and decide to get something to eat. We go to a coke stand and ask how big the large fries is. The server says its a mountain of fries. We order one. When we get the fries they are not even stacked. We tell the waiter, this is not a Kilimanjaro of fries, its a Sarangeti. He laughs.

Our flight gets delayed to go to Kenya. In the mean time we get to see the chief of the police (Colin Powel for the USA) come into an airport and get greeted. Teju records it, which apparantly could get him arrested. Because our flight is delayed I get a free snickers which rocked. We bought a tanzania joke book which was the funniest thing I had ever seen because it was so rediculous: A man tries to seduce a women to come up stairs with him. She does not respond. He goes down to talk to her, she ends up being a hollow drum. That was joke #1.

After the flight I got a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich from the girls which was AMAZING. I then had to leave BY MYSELF to go to a hotel as I was leaving at a different time. It freaked me out. Here I am in one of the most dangerous cities of the world all by myself. I had to go outside to use the ATM and my hands were shakeing trying to find my debit card. Eventually, I get my money and find a taxi and head off to a hotel that I have no idea where it is (The Nairobi Youth Hostel).

So at the Hostel I met Julie (Paul still was no where to be found) as she was going to bed. She said she had a roomate named Heather. Heather got home real late, but I'm glad I stayed up, she was amazing. She is spending a year traveling all over the world. She has found a romantic love in Ireland who was French and spent a large time skiing the alps and touring france with him. She plans on going all over Africa and the Middle Asia as a graduation thing from college. She's studying Criminal Justice.

The best part is we have similiar philosiphies. She also doesn't believe problems are real, life absolutely rocks, and relationships are near impossible to form. So we talked for ever swapping stories. In this place the walls were really thin so we had 4 people come and tell us to be quiet. At one point the manager knocked on the door, we were scared it was someone scary so we didn't answer it. Eventually, he walked to the window and yelled at us. He said "If you want to whisper go to a club, this is a hotel". But none the less, meeting Heather was a wonderful end to my adventures, and reminded me there are other Elliott's out there, even if they aren't in the CU engineering department.

Paul came home this morning. We have to go pick up $500 for the other guys who got refunds on their ticket switches. We also are planning on visiting a place where water flows up hill today. How exciting. To finish the day we plan on going to CARNIVORE, which is like a circus in Africa. What a wonderful conclusion. And then I'm off to London, to do who knows what.

I can't wait to see all of you.

Elliott Hedman

er I mean

Loserian