Rebound

Phew, I am feeling a little bit better about things. I have figured out how to get out of Zanzibar (read: I figured out the right person to yell at and the right person to bribe.) Oh, well, all part of the adventure. After a very cool day at the spice plantations yesterday, I had the mishap with my schedule, as I wrote about yesterday. So it was a mixed day. Last night, another woman who is here by herself asked me to eat dinner with her. We had drinks, and things felt a lot better. Oxana is a Russian dancer, and she moonlights as a lawyer. Very cool. She was tons of fun, and I woke up feeling better today. Also, thank god for BF. What would I do without him? Not only has he helped with my kitten but he helped figure out my mess with my flight. I needed access to the internet to figure things out. It was not working, so the people who worked at the hotel called their IT person. After fixing my computer, he proceeded to sit down at a computer where everything was in French right across from me and look up porn. Nice. Visiting the spice plantation yesterday was pretty neat. I saw dozens of spices and plants and coffee and tea being grown, and a boy climbed the tallest coconut tree I have ever seen while singing a song and cut me down a coconut. Then he cut it open and gave me a straw, and I drank the insides. Then he made a spoon out of the shell and I ate parts of the insides. Tomorrow- VERY EARLY-I leave for Nairobi, to the elephant orphanage. I hope my camera works for that!