Sweet Mwanza

We made it to Mwanza safe and sound, as if there were any doubts. It is much cooler here than in Dar, but we have no AC in our rooms (so I will continue to walk around with my wonderful scent of B.O.). However, the place we are staying is very nice, sort of like a bed and breakfast type of set up (its called the Tree House). Mwanza is supposed to be the second largest city in the country but on first impression it feels very small. The airport was tiny, the roads that are paved are not very large or wide, and the dirt roads are very bumpy. On the drive from the airport into town there were many fields of various crops (rice, mango etc..) and also lots of farm animals. Of course there are also many farm animals in the city as well. Needless to say, there doesn't seem to be nearly as much going on here as in Dar.
A short time after arriving in Mwanza a few of us decided to go out to buy dinner and a few groceries. It turned out to be a bit of an adventure between us and the driver that was taking us around. He speaks very little English and we speak even less Swahili. We had one communication mix up after another and were unable to get him to understand that there was a restaurant in particular that we wanted to go to. After visiting the third one we decided to just buy food there. None the less it was amusing and funny and luckily the driver was very patient with us. Mwanza seems like it is going to be very entertaining...