Day 37- Tanzania was once called "Tanganyika", ATMs deserve a place in the museum, and roadside ice cream ROCKS!

Tuesday, June. 7th, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSE!!
And so it begins... The week. Jesse and I showed up to our internship placement in the morning only to be locked out again. This time it went too long. We gave up after a good while and got a ride to Slipway where we did some work at a coffee shop and looked around some of the shops. We also went and got some MUCH NEEDED pedicures at a shop I have been in correspondence with for future entrepreneurial training options for locals here through a Canadian charity project. The pedicure was fantastic, I really wished it would not have ended. The ladies did a phenomenal job.... almost as good as my pedicures I normally get at home!
Jesse and I decided to go visit the National Museum of Tanzania!

 The museum was basically an office building, a church like building, and a shed/shack type makeshift. It did not even look like a museum... our driver had a hard time finding the place! I think he stopped and asked about 6 people along the way every few minutes. It only cost us 2600 tsh to enter because we were foreign students! Score! 

 Sorry about the glare from the glass... I tried my best..

 Yep. That is right... An ATM is in their museum. This was Tanzania's FIRST ATM from 1994... Amusing what ends up in their museum here. I have selected just a few more photos to share, as I find some interesting and some just hilarious...

 INTERESTING!: A bicycle made out of wood! About 98% of this bike was wood. The seat is wood, the handlebars are wood, the poles are wood... even the wheels are wood! The only things NOT wood is the chain and the stuff that turns the chain. COOL!

HILARIOUS!: In case you cannot read what the card says I will type it out for you. "In many countries mollusks are processed and canned for human consumption. Shown here are processed and canned molluscs." That was no spelling error on my part... That is straight up original quoting going on there! This is in their museum... do not ask me why... I just do not get it. Amusing though...

After our wonderful adventures at the museum we returned back to the guesthouse, getting some ice cream along the way from a man on a bicycle. It was good ice cream and really helped to cool me down. Hot day...

Until we meet again... Kwaheri ya kuonana! [In English: Goodbye until we meet again]