Arusha is a little slice of the West, it seems. I meet Shannon at a western style cafe she calls "the Tanners of East Africa," where you can buy things like actual coffee. One of the world's largest coffee production regions and I can't tell you how hard it is to find actual- not instant- coffee.
Meet up with Seepan, another recent USC grad, and we head to the movie theater on a UN shuttle to watch Captain America. Stopped briefly for Mexican food. It's like we're home!
Except the power went out three times during the movie, and the theater wouldn't show the scene after the credits. Some sort of cultural misunderstanding prevented us from convincing them to show us the last scene. So it all seemed very western until the continuous power outages reminded us that yes, in fact, we are still in Africa.
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