Stonetown shopping, 1/11 – 10 part 2/2

We all survived! Today we split up in two teams. Me, Sebastian, Annika and Ida made some adventureous shopping in Stonetown while Gamme, Viktor, Harish and Anders went marketing. It is election time on Zanzibar and the results were planned to be announced in the afternoon. Rumours say that the locals use to meet during the election, be together and throw some stones on each other. Therefore the name of the city. Chased by the election announcement we headed off in the morning in order to be out of town at noon. Stonetown was dirty and cosy in its African way. We met with Dr. Flower at her university office and discussed machines and soap ingredient purchase when we suddenly had to evacuate the university office. Since we did not want to take part of any potential stone throwing we had to skip visiting the print shop in central town. Instead we fixed our errands in the outskirts of town where everything was nice and calm. On the way out we passed a sports arena containing a whole army, standing by.

We bought a wheelbarrow for the women to carry seaweed from the ocean to the Seaweed Center. It had the guaranteed quality of carrying a hotel manager. Down in the deep and dirty allies we managed to find some caustic soda. Other purchases was grease and ”5-56”, which me and Sebastian used for making a face lift of the machines, while Annika, Ida and Tomas had a seaweed store design competition.

Other day to day amusements are Sebastian's fear of falling coconuts, why he takes detours, and Harish's immense fear of rats and lizards, why he sleeps in jeans.

Daniel