oops

i wrote this lovely description yesterday of how i got on a supposed dalla-dalla on sunday and it turned out to be a church bus instead and i was apparently hitch-hiking, but then the computer lost it. twice. so i refuse to write it again and you'll just have to trust me that it was funny. we've been hitch-hiking a lot lately. (i know, you are NEVER supposed to hitch-hike, but often it's the only way to get home.) we usually have to do it when we are at this particular strip of restaurants near our houses. the dalla-dallas stop around 9:30 pm (going out of town) and since last night it took us three hours to get dinner (this is about average), it's rare that we make it home by 9:30. last night we went to Pizza Point, which was good but it appeared that the dough had be made from scratch and rise before we could eat. we finally moved inside because i was cold and that seemed to speed up the process - as long as we were watching, the staff busily worked. j looked over at the next table, where a family sat with a child who had a broken arm and was about five years old. "that child," he said, "was conceived in this restaurant, born here, broke his arm here, and they just now got their pizza."

it was 10 when we left and we went to a busy parking lot a few restaurants down and g flagged down a departing vehicle. it was an interpreter for the tribunal, who gladly gave us a ride once g said, "three of us are girls. pretty girls." the guy was so drunk that he never remembered to turn the headlights on (good thing no one came up behind us). fortunately he was of the type that drives really really slowly when drunk because they know that they are drunk and we made it safely.

there followed a torturous nearly two hour stint of trying to figure out who owes what to whom. we have all repented of our spending money without getting reimbursed because it was so painful to figure out two weeks at once. i think l is still getting ripped off. i'm just happy that i will come out 3000 shillings ahead - about $3. perfect, because i currently have 1800 Tsh in my pocket and those I borrowed from j. i really need to get to a forex and change money. otherwise i'm going to starve and i'll have to sleep at the tribunal because i won't be able to pay the dalla-dalla to get home.