since my last blogpost I've gotten a great sunburn.. typically on feet, knees and stomach.. great.. makes one really appreciate -not- having a sunburn, hehe.. but luckily its getting better tho'.
zanzibar is wonderful. we live on the beach, kinda.. in our own bungalow (don't remember if I already told you this). white beach, crystalclear water.. and nice people (most of them). the american guy tried hard to be our close n'shit friend, but we struggeled a bit with that. he was nice. he was! when he was talking about working for his non profit organization, being a photographer and how much he wants to help people here.. thats great! but in the next minute he's rude to the staff here, complains a lot, misses his swimmingpool and three cars at home and gets really annoyed when his masaai friend wants to use his pictures here to boost the tourism to his masaii village, or whatever, without him getting a profit from it.
but we put on a smile, laughed of his jokes.. and we even went to dinner with him some day also.. he left yesterday, and we kinda like it. a lot.
besides this (drama), we have explored a tiny corner of stone town. twice. we always have a huge ambition about seeing everything of it.. yet we just have to stop up every minute to take another picture. its such a beautiful town.. the word beautiful doesn't even cover it for me. I've taken like 200 pictures today.. from town. just while walking around. at a point we were almost lost...ish.. and then we found such a wonderful building. I just had to go in there.. and it turned out to be the high court. hehe. couldn't walk that much around in there before we were told to go out again. so we just continued walkin... (secretly happy about all the nice pictures we got in there..). we stopped outside an art gallary.. tho' it didnt really look like one.. yet all we could see was lots of black and white photos on the wall. we stepped inside and met this indian fellow behind an old counter.
he was a photographer.. just like his father were.. and this was his fathers old photostudio/gallery.. so amazing talking with him about pictures and his father. lots of old pictures in black and white shots from here.. we bought some of them.. hard to resist so amazing pictures. and then we were invited to see his studio.. it was so old fashion retro ish.. but really cool. old lamps.. chairs.. arragements.. back from the 50's when his father shot pictures there.. he took a picture of all three of us, stating the beginning of our friendship. what a wonderful spirit and fantastic guy. we exchanged contacts, and I felt that there's something with this meeting we'll treasure.. just don't know the purpose yet.
we walked further, got some help from some local schoolboys to find the fishmarket. and then we found the fishmarket, but decided to walk around instead, holding on to our cameras and smilin'.. such a great day :)
countdown is finally at its end very soon.. and I've never looked so much forewards to a monday before.. not even when the show E.R started with a new season. its not that we don't like it here.. but we know we'll really like it a lot at home also.. somehow.. ish.. a lot :)
that's all folks! maybe the next update will be before we leave this place.. more to come. and here's a teaser... : dolphins..
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