27/10: Merica Hotel

For breakfast today there was bread, but not white bread, brown bread! After breakfast I just relax with a book until lunch. Did I say they serve cooked vegetables? Really good too with chips and meat. Then after lunch Charlene and I went to the Merica Hotel. One of the two places you can always find volunteers apparently. They have a swimming pool there, so I imagine many afternoons are spent there. Though I personally think I have gotten plenty of sun in Zanzibar. We were there from around 2 pm to 7 pm. It started raining about 3 pm and after that many of the others there were skyping and things like that. I read through almost my entire lonely planet guide book and I have some things I really want to do in the weekends that I have here. Dinner is always at 8 pm, so we came home for that. We took a piki-piki both ways. One for both of us. I have never taken one in Arusha, but Charlene trusts this guy John so I tried to do that too. Though why it should be less dangerous here than in Arusha I don’t know, but there is less traffic. By the way a piki-piki is a motorcycle.