bus ride.

WRITTEN SUNDAY JUNE 24TH!!!

I promised in the last post to tell about the public transportation “experience” in another post....so here you go...straight from my journal :)

“today was a tiring day & a very adventurous day. after the team left , we had to scadaddle off to Nsoko....on public transportation. on the way to the buses, matt tells us that we are going to have to just get off in the street when he stops & so we did. we get out there & there is a mess of people everywhere. we cross the street & i look back and see the police officer has the hand of jesse and grabs my dads hand. she tells us that we crossed the road the “wrong way” & therefore we need to go to the police station. seriously?! 

jesse finally talks her out of it & then she makes us recross the street the “right” way. throwback to first grade. after that, we stop at the corner because there are people EVERYWHERE & ALL of the bus drivers are yelling at us to get on their bus. sssttttresssfulll. 

as we are standing there, a bus backs up without warning, right into where people are standing. all the sudden, i look back & there is a gogo (older woman) that literally was 2 inches from being smashed from the bus. my dad luckily grabbed her out of the way. so that was interesting.

next we had to figure out the bus that we were supposed to get on. it was literally just a mess of buses everywhere!!! we finally got on the right one, and it was cccrrrrraaammmmmeeed. there were people in every single seat && the aisle was as jam packed as it could’ve been. okay then, guess we’re standing here for the next hour & a half. 

there were hands & butts all over me. it was interesting. if this wasn’t crazy enough yet, people started to need to get through the aisle within the first 10 minutes. like uh, nope, i reallly don’t think this is gonna work...just saying. but they somehow managed to get through. lets just say there were a lot of butts and a lot of crotches. 

we got lucky, and after around 45 minutes or so, we got to sit down. 

after we got to sit down, it was fine. actually enjoyable. the scenery is beautiful & there was a nice breeze.”

So that’s our bus adventure summed up.